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aslide

aslide adjective: sliding.

Adjective

aslide (comparative more aslide, superlative most aslide)

  1. Sliding.
    • It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially the timid; but to-day every ice-boat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share.1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, chapter 19, in Hans Brinker, New York: James O’Kane, published 1867, page 140
    • A shower of cinders through the air . . .
      A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .1912, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, “The Slag”, in Fires, Book III: The Hare, and Other Tales, London: Elkin Mathews, page 13
  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.2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 70

Forms of aslide

comparativemore aslide
superlativemost aslide

Origin of aslide

From a- + slide.

Questions about aslide

What does aslide mean?
Aslide means sliding.
What part of speech is aslide?
Aslide is an adjective.

Words near aslide in the dictionary

  1. ASLEF
  2. Asleson
  3. Aslesons
  4. Aslett
  5. Aslian
  6. aslide
  7. Aslin
  8. Aslins
  9. aslither
  10. ASLO
  11. Aslockton

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