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aslide

adj

Etymology

From a- + slide.

  1. inherited from *slīdaną✻ — “to slide, glide”
  2. inherited from *slīdan✻
  3. inherited from slīdan — “to slide”
  4. inherited from sliden
  5. prefixed as aslide — “a + slide”

Definitions

  1. Sliding.

    • A shower of cinders through the air . . . A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .

  2. Covered (with something sliding).

    • We pour buckets of hot water into the washtub and gather wintergreen to sprinkle in. […] Mistress stands up and rushes to him. Her naked skin is aslide with wintergreen.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA