1880 Daily News 22 Nov. 5/3 Hanlan, the Canadian,..is a great slider.

1877 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 11/1 ‘Sliders’, the common river turtles of almost all the rivers of the region, grow to a much larger size.

1883 Science 1 149/2 The heart of the ‘slider’ terrapin.

1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 155 The ‘Red~bellied Terrapin’, Pseudemys rugosa,..is also known under the names ‘Potter’, ‘Red-fender’, and ‘Slider’.

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 12/6 It looks like what some of the modern pitchers call ‘a slider’.

1980 Washington Post 1 Aug. d3/3 The human body isn't meant to throw the slider.

1781 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 5747/2 R, R, are the rollers, to move the sliders, by help of the arms cf, cf.

1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ 43 The pallets and sliders of the several sound-boards.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 328/2 We now apply the word slide or slider only to that strip of wood which, passing under a row of pipes from right to left, admits the air to a particular row of pipes or stops.

1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. iii. 56 The sliders are long pieces of wood, usually made of mahogany.

1796 Repertory of Arts 5 227 In these notches are placed six sliders or small bars.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 268 The form of these levers, sliders, or other movables..may be varied without end.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 242/2 In these slits are inserted little pieces of steel, called sliders.

1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regicide France in Wks. VIII. 109 Fitting to their size the slider of his guillotine!

1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 206/1 To the pois'd plank tie fast the monster's back, Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack.

1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone III. x. ii. 378 The report next fell under what Burke calls the accursed slider.]

1871 W. Wigram Change-ringing Disentangled 2 From the top of the stock there rises a strong, upright piece of wood, or sometimes of iron, called the ‘stay’; and immediately below the bell's mouth, fixed to the frame, is the ‘slider’, or sliding-rest..by which the stay is caught when the bell is thrown mouth uppermost.

1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 4 Slider, usually a bar of wood pivoted at one end on one of the lower members of the ‘frame’, and extending across the bottom of the ‘bell~pit’ so that its free end may move to and fro on a bed provided for it on the opposite side of the ‘pit’.

1931 E. Morris Hist. Change Ringing i. 15 For many years..bells were rung without stay or slider as we now know them.

1931 E. Morris Hist. Change Ringing i. 15 Stedman..mentions what would be the fore~runner of the stay and slider adjustment.

1974 J. Camp Bell Ringing ii. 30 (caption) The stay has pushed the slider to the limit of its movement and the bell cannot turn any further.

1872 Jrnl. Soc. Electr. Engineers 1 202 The slider n is moved on the compensating wire so as to destroy the deflection of the galvonometer.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 56/1 By moving the slider F it is possible to find one position for it in which sparks pass from the inside to the outside of C [sc. a Leyden jar] across the tin-foil.

1923 Pop. Wireless 13 Oct. (Suppl.) 1 Suppose we have a coil consisting of 500 turns of No. 22 wire,..fitted with a slider, and we wish to know approximately where to put the slider to receive the Dutch concerts.

1965 Wireless World Sept. 432/1 The base..is taken to the slider of a potentiometer connected across the output terminals of the power supply.

1975 Hi-Fi Answers Feb. 76/3 Set the input level sliders to about three-quarters of full travel and route the signal back through the amplifier by means of the tape monitor button.

1978 Gramophone Aug. 392/3 The latest in Bang and Olufsen's range of Beomaster tuner-amplifiers is..distinguished by its..absence of switches and knobs—all functions being handled by sliders, press-keys, and wheels.

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1357 The Sliders with the plain and concave Glass plates for Objects [are] very convenient.

1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 515 Making use of fine transparent Muscovy Talc or Isinglass, placed in Sliders, to inclose Objects in.

1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 280 You may change the objects in your sliders for what others you think proper.

1855 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art VI. 94 The wings..of this gnat..make very beautiful objects when mounted under thin glass in sliders.

?1793 Catal. Optical Instruments (W. & S. Jones) 3 Small magic lanthorns, with twelve sliders complete.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 246 A second face coming across us, like the sliders of a magic lantern.

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 64/1 One of these sliders will give a picture upon the white screen.

1770 tr. M.-A. du Bocage Lett. I. 67 Litte round vessels called sliders, of the same [Indian] wood, serve to hold the bottles.

1895 ‘S. Tytler’ Macdonald Lass ix. 123 There are the sliders and the cruet, and father's tankard.

1905 Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 6/6 Two chased and pierced decanter sliders.

1915 J. J. Bell Wee Macgreegor Enlists ii Come on oot wi' me an' I'll stan' ye a dizzen sliders.

1915 A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xviii ‘You like a glass, zir, instead of a zlider?’.. ‘I haven't had the joy of licking an ice-cream glass dry for many a long day.’

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 16 The youngsters still ask for wafers and tasters (small quantities of ice in a glass). Note, called sliders in Edinburgh.

1930 Punch 7 May 517 Won't you join me in a slider?

1935 L. MacNeice Poems 63 Ice cream in sliders Bought in dusty streets.

1967 R. Mackay House & Day 75 ‘I'll have a slider too.’.. The woman took a wafer..and covered it with the thin yellow ice-cream... She put a second wafer on the top.