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▪ I. ˈside-slip, n. [f. side n.1 + slip n. and v.] †1. ? A slope or rise. Obs.—1 In mod. Linc. dial. on the side-slip of means ‘somewhat to the side of’.
1649in Archaeol. (1792) X. 434 The scite of this manor house being placed on the side slipp of a rising ground. 2. An illegitimate child. Cf. by-slip 2.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xl, The old man..left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark. 3. ‘A division at the side of the stage of a theatre, where the scenery is slipped off and on.’
1882in Imperial Dict. (Annandale) Suppl. 4. A slip taken from the side of a plant.
1891in Cent. Dict. 5. a. The action or fact of slipping sideways, esp. on the part of a cycle or motor-car.
1896Daily News 16 Nov. 4/2 Cyclists..came ignominiously to earth by reason of the demon ‘side-slip’. 1898Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 5/1 A lady cyclist met with a serious accident from side-slip near Leytonstone. b. Aeronaut. = slip n.3 9 j; also, a manœuvre in which this is deliberately produced.
1910Flight 25 June 493/1 Is the banking..sufficient to overcome centrifugal movement (which is of course a sort of side-slip) or not? 1915[see overbank v. 2 a]. 1928Observer 1 July 17/3 With the greatest of ease they performed side-slips, vertical dives, and loops. 1969K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 108/1 He eventually made a safe landing after the machine was put into a side-slip—a manoeuvre which, as Dallas Brett later recorded, was then ‘popularly regarded as being in the nature of a preliminary funeral rite’. 1978Sci. Amer. Nov. 137/1 The fixed rear fin had tended to correct this condition by causing the machine to turn in the direction of the sideslip. c. Skiing and Surfing. The action of descending (a slope or wave).
1913[see side-slip v. c]. 1959P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski iv. 51 Now they were tackling the sideslip—skidding sideways down icy slopes, their skis flat against the mountain-side. 1968Surfer Mag. Jan. 24/3 Sliding sideways in a controlled sideslip until you reach the bottom of the wave. 1970N. Fleming Czech Point i. 10, I..went into a twenty foot long sideslip and stopped. d. fig.
1916H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks p. v, The dreadful haltings, the many side-slips, the irregular speed, and, in short, the altogether disconcerting ways of a pen. 1921Galsworthy To Let ii. p. vi, He therefore confined himself to discussing with Dumetrius whether Monticellis would come again..and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights. ▪ II. ˈside-slip, v. [f. the n.] a. intr. To slip sideways.
1887Cycling (Badm. Libr.) 359 Side-slipping.—Most riders of dwarf bicycles have experienced this when riding on greasy roads. 1902in Cassell's Dict. Suppl. 1904Blackw. Mag. Oct. 534/1 They will prance and curvet, sideslip [etc.]. b. Aeronaut. Of an aeroplane: to move sideways, esp. towards the centre of curvature while turning (cf. skid v.1 3 c). Also trans., to cause to do this. Cf. slip v.1 9 c.
1911Flight 23 Sept. 830/2 He turned sharply to the left, permitting the machine to bank up too much, whereupon it side-slipped to the ground. 1928Rep. & Mem. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. No. 1187. 6 The aeroplane is side-slipped with the rudder bar central. 1935C. Day Lewis Time to Dance 36 From three thousand feet they tilted Over, side-slipped away. 1941Pope & Otis Elem. Aeronaut. ix. 84 It is possible..to sideslip the plane even during a turn of the ‘S’. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxv. 183 The whole plane felt dead and we sideslipped fast. 1978Sci. Amer. Nov. 139/1 Every so often the machine would lose control and simply sideslip into the ground. c. Skiing. To descend sideways. Cf. sense 5 c of the n.
1913A. Lunn Ski-ing iii. 79 The expert makes great use of the side-slip for getting down difficult ground... Run with your ski in the normal position for traversing a slope... Flatten them against the slope and slip sideways. Then run a little way in the normal position and again side-slip. 1952Iselin & Spectorsky Invitation to Skiing vi. 101 When you can side slip and stop at will, you are ready for the next exercise. 1972‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness ii. 13 Knees flexed..he had side-slipped down the sheer drop from the shoulder of the mountain. d. transf. and fig. Also occas. trans.
1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings v. 139 Snatches of familiar flying-talk..side-slipped away from Archie. 1921Galsworthy To Let i. iii. 36 His heart moved in a disconcerting manner, as if it had side-slipped within his chest. 1930London Mercury Feb. 319 Here he was suddenly realising that they controlled another mode of clutching. Better to side-slip that too—if he could. 1931Technol. Rev. Nov. 67/1, I was cruising along 43d Street when along came Bill, Sam, and Charlie in formation, and we all side-slipped into a speakeasy and did a lot of barroom flying. 1960T. McLean Kings of Rugby xi. 120 He offered dummy passes, sidestepped, sideslipped. 1964D. Macarthur Reminiscences v. 125 The problem was to sideslip my troops westward..before their path would be cut off from the north. So side-slipping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1887[see sense a above]. 1904Motor Cycle 18 Apr. 361/3 Side-slipping is a great bugbear to motor cyclists. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 1 A wet night, a greasy road, and a side-slipping motor-bike. 1930[see nose-dive v. 1 a]. 1949A. Fawcus Skiing Simplified ii. 49 Sideslipping is the easiest way to get down a steep slope without having to turn. 1950Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 10 Side⁓slipping, motion of an aircraft relative to the air such that the air flow has a component along the lateral axis. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 957/1 The secret of giant slalom is good control of the ski edges to prevent wasteful sideslipping. |