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▪ I. sloping, vbl. n.|ˈsləʊpɪŋ|
[f. slope v.1]
The fact of being or forming a slope; degree of slope; a sloping surface.
1611Cotgr., Glacis,..a sloaping, sloapenesse, gentle bending downewards. 1645N. Stone Enchiridion Fortif. 3 On the inward side they gave them [sc. the walls] a Talud or slooping. 1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 204 If the sloaping of the Tun be not much. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 27 The great Walk in the middle..is supposed to be a gentle Sloping. 1794Sullivan View of Nature II. 145 The different sloping of the ground. 1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. 30 Where all The sloping of the moon-lit sward Was damask-work. 1903Davidson O.T. Prophecy ix. 138 The stair-like sloping to heaven of the land.
▪ II. sloping, ppl. a.|ˈsləʊpɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
That slopes, in senses of the vb.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 727 Mountaines, whose sloping sides in some places beare good grass. 1642H. More Song Soul iii. i. vi, Many thousand sloping sunnes have set. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 25 Where there are no Steps there is a sloaping descent to the Bason. 1765A. Dickson Agric. (ed. 2) 211 A curved mold⁓board with a sloping sheath. 1797Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. xii, With sloping masts and dipping prow..The ship drove fast. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 189 The ligament..is inserted in the sloping depression in each valve. 1875T. Seaton Fret-Cutting 94 The extra wood..given by the sloping cut can be pared away afterwards.
b. In quasi-adverbial construction.
1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magick iii. xvii. 98 Bore a hole sloaping into the body of a Tree. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 45 These Crucibles are laid sloaping. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 124 In such manner, that it may open sloping within the Funnel. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. viii. 218 The course of the water..ran sloping with a rapid but uniform motion. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 342/1 The stock is cut over, sloping, above a smooth and straight part. |