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Definition of Slipes
1. n. pl. Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
Definition of Slipes
1. slipe [v] - See also: slipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipes
Literary usage of Slipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Town of Berlin, Worcester County, Mass., from 1784-to 1895 by William Addison Houghton (1895)
"Robert Houghton names in deed to Cyrus the "slipes" east of the brook, ...
Later, these slipes were owned by Capt. Henry Powers and his s., John. ..."
2. The Coltness Collections, M.DC.VIII.-M.DCCC.XL. by James Dennistoun, Archibald Steuart Denham, Margaret Steuart Calderwood (1842)
"A great many things they carry on slipes, for instance barrells. They have slipes
of a great length, on which I have counted four-and-twenty empty barrells. ..."
3. The Coltness Collections, M.DC.VIII.-M.DCCC.XL. by James Dennistoun, Archibald Steuart Denham, Margaret Steuart Calderwood (1842)
"A great many things they carry on slipes, for instance barrells. They have slipes
of a great length, on which I have counted four-and-twenty empty barrells. ..."
4. Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton from England, Holland and by Margaret Steuart Calderwood (1884)
"A great many things they carry on slipes,3 for instance barrells. They have slipes
of a great length, on 1 To slush, or slop. 2 Moss, or lichen. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Soft wood slipes when it can be divided by mere propulsive effort the way of the
grain. Л ' sliping cut,' or a slipe (with its related noun understood), ..."
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