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▪ I. slipe, n.1 Sc. and north.|slaɪp|
Also 5 Sc. slyp, 6 slype.
[app. a. LG. slîpe (cf. MSw. slipa to drag, draw), var. of the usual slêpe, = MHG. sleife (G. schleife) sledge, train, loop, knot, etc., related to LG. slîpen to whet, and slêpen to drag (see Grimm's Wbch. s.v. schleifen).
For various dialect uses see the Eng. Dial. Dict.]
1. A sledge or drag.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1625 He..Graithyt him a drawcht, on a braid slyp and law. Ibid. 1633 To ground the slyp can ga. 1489Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 124 Item, to Will, wryth, that past to bryng the bott fra the Blaknes and makyng of hir slyp, iiij li. 1739Sir J. Clerk in Mem. W. Stukeley (Surtees) II. 92 [At Whitehaven] the Coal when brought up to the level of the sea, is putt on slips [? read slipes], and conveyed into the cavity of a hill. 1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 64 A great many things they carry on slipes, for instance barrells. They have slipes of a great length. 1807Ann. Reg. 868 A sledge without poles, moved by drag-ropes, and termed a slipe. 1860Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (ed. 2) 79 Slipes, the sledges at the bottom of the skip, used to draw the coals upon. 1880–in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Sc., Irel.).
b. Part of a plough (see quots.).
1616Surfl. & Markham Country Farme v. vi. 532 Then the slipe to keep the plow from wearing. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 157 The sole or under plate, and the curved side or slipe, formerly called the earth-board,..are of iron or cast metal. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Slipe, the flat sheet of iron on the land or left side of a plough. 1891in Sheffield Gloss. Suppl.
c. Mining. (See quots.)
1860Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (ed. 2) 44 Slipes, flat pieces of iron for the corves to slide on. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Slipes,..sledge-runners, upon which a skip is dragged from the working breast to the tramway.
†2.
a. ? A flap or lappet.
b. A noose or halter. Obs.
1540Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 113 My bonnet with slipes. 1587Shuttleworth Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 41 A corde to make slypes for horsies to tye them in, vd.
▪ II. slipe, n.2 Now dial. (and U.S.).
Also 6 slype.
[Of obscure origin: cf. slip n.2 and slype n.]
A slip or slice; a long narrow piece or strip. Also fig. (quot. 1597).
1538Leland Itin. (1769) VII. 72 A Soyle Champayne on every Syde, in the whiche as in Slypes, were some prety Groves and Woods. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §5 (1611) 420 Deuiding their charge into slipes, and ordaining of vnder-officers. 1624Maldon Borough Deeds (Bundle 108 fol. 3), One kitchin or building (with a little Slipe of ground therunto in Al Scts. parish). 1854in A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. 1876–in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Cumb., Yks., Bedf., Som.). 1896Amer. Dial. Notes I. 66 (E.D.D.), Cut me a slipe of bacon.
▪ III. † slipe, n.3 Obs.—1
[? var. of slip n.1]
(See quot.)
1716Phil. Trans. XXIX. 472 The Cliffs consist of great ragged Sand-Stones till we come to near a Yard..of the Bottom; then we meet with what they call a Slipe, i.e. a slippery sort of Clay always wet.
▪ IV. slipe, n.4|slaɪp|
[f. slipe v.2]
A certain quality of skin-wool.
1856Farmer's Mag. Nov. 448 Silesian slipes and skins in bundles. 1889Daily News 12 Dec. 2/4 Bales marked with the names of the stations upon which the wool was grown, or the breed of sheep, such as ‘Bridgwater Cheviot, Lincoln Slipes’, &c.
▪ V. † slipe, v.1 Obs.
In 4–5 slype.
[a. MDu. slīpen (Du. slijpen) or MLG. slîpen (LG. slîpen, Sw. slipa, Da. slibe), = OHG. slîfan (G. schleifen) to whet, etc.]
trans. To make smooth, to polish; to whet or sharpen.
1390Gower Conf. II. 347 His mouth upon the gras he wypeth, And so with feigned chiere him slypeth. 1390Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 46 Pro slypyng gladiorum domini. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vi. xxvii. in Ashm. (1652) 167 Whych lyke a sworde new slypyd then wyll shyne. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxviii. 107 A swerde well sharpe slyped, myghte haue broughte the two susters to deth bothe atones.
▪ VI. slipe, v.2 Now dial.
Also 4 slype.
[Of obscure origin. For the various dialect uses see the Eng. Dial. Dict.]
1. trans. To strip, peel, skin; to take off by peeling or stripping, etc.
c1390Form of Cury in Warner Culin. Antiq. (1791) 5 Take the whyte of lekes, slype hem, and shrede hem small. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Slipe, to strip off the skin or bark of any thing. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 353 To Slipe off, to draw off superficially; as skin from the body, bark from a tree, &c. 1824–in dial. glossaries, etc. (Sc. and northern).
2. intr. To fall over softly.
1786Burns To Auld Mare xii, Till sprittie knowes wad rair't an' risket, Au' slypet owre.
▪ VII. † slipe, v.3 Obs.—1
In 5 slype.
(Meaning not clear.)
a1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) i. 1072 Than shall hys hosen be stryped, Wyth corselettys of fyne veluet slyped Down to the hard kne. |