aslide

comparative more aslide · superlative most aslide

1. Sliding.

   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

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   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

   Another [dance], in which one man seemed to fly, one to pursue, in which the hunted seemed to invite the hunter, with a swift skirting movement, his feet aslide, and one elbow crooked—that was the eternal invitation to pursuit and capture, the love-chase of high antiquity.

   1922, Maurice Hewlett, “The Morris”, in Extemporary Essays, Oxford University Press, page 158

   Another pirate had landed there and a third was just arriving, two more aslide behind him.

   1959, Poul Anderson, “The Sky People”, in Maurai and Kith, TOR, published 1982, page 53

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