| 释义 |
sloped, ppl. a.|sləʊpt|
Also 7 sloapt, 8 sloap'd.
[f. slope v.1]
Formed with a slope; cut, raised, placed, etc., in a sloping position.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋10 Turning the Ball about by its Handle, [he] presses it hard against the sloapt edge of the Ball-knife. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 167, I will make into Sloped Banks the 15 Toises or Fathoms of Augmentation to the South. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Engrafting, Almost as long as the sloap'd Part of the Cyon. 1766Compl. Farmers s.v. Surveying, An index, which is a large ruler of wood..having a sloped edge. 1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 319/1 The sloped work had been destroyed. 1859Ruskin Perspective xviii. 132 Cut a piece of strong white pasteboard.., and dip it in a sloped position into water. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs I. 73 Two Kashmiri soldiers..marching along with sloped arms. |