Meanings
- archaicparticiplepastpast participle of slide
These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment.
1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket1 more example
In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden.
1898, Marshall Mather, Lancashire Idylls (1898)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with slidden
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