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▪ I. ˈslipping, vbl. n.1
[f. slip v.1]
1. a. The action of the verb in intransitive senses. Also with advs. or preps., as away, into, out, up.
a1340Hampole Ps. xlix. 21 It likes þe to speke ill, not for slipynge of þi tonge or in chawnce, bot wiþ study. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 55 b, Other also..durst not hasard themselues for feare of galtroppes or slippynge into y⊇ fyer. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. vii. 23 Many accidentes stayed the purpose; fearefull messages, the slippings away of his friendes [etc.]. 1602Carew Survey Cornwall ii. 127 b, The thankful acknowledgement of many corrected slippings in..my notes. 1676Wiseman Surg. Treat. vii. ii. 480 The Ancients called it a Slipping of the Head of a Bone out of its Cavity. 1840[Etheridge] Life Adam Clarke 255 He had met with a serious accident by the slipping of his study ladder. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. x. 278 The place was watched for some time, but the slipping was not repeated. 1865Kingsley Herew. vii, There was the usual splintering of lances and slipping up of horses.
b. spec. (See quot.) U.S.
1896Howells Impress. & Exp. 9 The ‘slippin',’ as the sleighing was called,..lasted from December to April with hardly a break.
c. = slip n.3 9 e.
1912Q. Rev. Jan. 182 The danger attendant on the ‘slipping’ of a charge in a blast furnace—the descent of hunks of limestone and ore that are hurled into the air when such a ‘slip’ occurs. 1948G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel I. x. 166 Slipping is the aftermath of scaffolding or hanging. Ibid., Slipping or irregular descent of the stock may..occur due to badly designed bosh walls. 1969K. R. Haley in J. H. Strassburger Blast Furnace II. xii. 592 (heading) Hanging and slipping.
2. The action of the verb in transitive senses. Also fig.
1571Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 125 Nane of the saidis partiis salbe interessit throw slipping of the occasioun and tyme of warning. 1865Slang Dict. 235 Slipping, a trick of card-sharpers, in performance of which, by dexterous manipulation, they place the cut card on the top, instead of at the bottom of the pack. 1885Daily News 19 Feb. 2/7 The slipping and judging gave entire satisfaction. 1898Ibid. 11 Oct. 8/1 The practice of ‘slipping’, that is, of mechanically detaching coaches from off express trains. 1925Morris Owner's Man. 22 Persistent slipping of the clutch must not be resorted to. 1959Listener 17 Dec. 1085/3 Such statements as that on page 169..may be regarded as a momentary slipping of the clutch.
3. attrib., as slipping-apparatus, slipping system.
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports i. iii. vi. 194 Thus alternately using the slipping system and the horse-exercise. 1895Daily News 7 Sept. 7/5 He was riding in the front van of a first-class coach, in which the slipping apparatus was fitted.
▪ II. ˈslipping, vbl. n.2
[f. slip v.2]
1. A skein or hank of yarn. Cf. slip n.2 11. ? Obs.
1541–2Inv. in Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (1857) 81, xxv teir of hempe slippingis, xxij canvis slippingis, x flaxen slippingis. 1599Nottingham Rec. IV. 251 Certen slippinges of hardne yarne. 1603Shuttleworth Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 152 Delivered to her xxviij haspes or slippinges of line yearn,..and v haspes or slippinges of canves yearne. 1615G. Markham Eng. Housew. ii. v. (1668) 137 Divide the slipping or skean into divers Leyes, allowing..twenty leyes to every slipping. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 107/1 A Slipping, is as much as is wond upon the Reel at a time, which is generally about a pound of Yarn. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 389.
2. The action of taking slips from a plant.
1548Elyot, Frondatio, a slyppyng of leaues or bowes, loppyng of trees. c1614Campion 2nd Bk. Ayres Wks. (1909) 144 Thriue faire plants e'er the worse for the slipping? 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 133 Calamint is raised by Slipping, or parting of the Roots.
b. A cutting of a plant; a slip.
1638Peacham Valley of Variety xii. 103 It was planted like unto our vines, by setting the slippings into the earth. 1908[Miss Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 15 Such slippings or cuttings as the receiver might chance ‘to grow’.
▪ III. ˈslipping, ppl. a.
[f. slip v.1]
That slips, in senses of the intransitive verb; also fig., transient, passing quickly.
c1400Destr. Troy 4032 The slippond slete [was] slidon of the ground. 1435Misyn Fire of Love 64 Þat vaynglory of slippand praysynge þe sawle may not seyk. 1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 258 The slipping ioyes that worldly wights possest. 1636Strafford Lett. (1739) II. 18 To cozen all Strangers by those slipping Conveyances. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. viii, The slipping-board that I had lately opened. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 175/2 We should recommend fixing the position micrometer upon a slipping-piece.
†b. slipping knot, = slip-knot. Obs.
a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 29 Þat þe þrede..be so bonden..þat it may be loused without kuttyng, þat is with a lache knotte or slyppyng knotte. 1647Ward Simple Cobler 67 Apron-string tenure is very weak, tyed but of a slipping knot.
Hence ˈslippingly adv.
1830Galt Lawrie T. ix. (1849) 233 Without retiring from the scene he had come slippingly behind us. |