| 释义 |
▪ I. slype, n. Arch.|slaɪp|
[Perhaps a special sense of slipe n.2, but cf. WFlem. slipe, slijpe a secret path.]
A covered way or passage, esp. one lying between the transept of a cathedral or monastic church and the chapter-house, and commonly leading out from the cloister.
1860M. E. C. Walcott Cathedrals in U.K. (ed. 2) 261 The slype is the passage on the south-west side of the nave. 1861G. G. Scott Westm. Abbey 37 It occupies a space which is very frequent in abbeys, intervening between the transept and the entrance to the chapter-house, and often called by the expressive name of ‘the slype’. 1865Ecclesiologist XXV. 207 The Slype was the passage which led to the cemetery lying usually between the transept and chapter house. 188419th Cent. Jan. 104 Where the transept ended there usually came a narrow passage called a slype. 1888Daily News 6 Sept. 6/5 The stones form part of the vaulting of the slype or corridor leading to the old burial ground of the monks.
attrib.1896Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/1 Examples of twelfth-century work..may be seen on the slype door of the south transept of St. Alban's Abbey.
▪ II. slype, v. Basket-making.|slaɪp|
Also slipe.
[Prob. var. slipe v.2]
trans. To cut away one side of (a rod or cane) with a long slanting cut, so that it comes to a point. Hence slype n.; slyped ppl. a.; ˈslyping vbl. n.
1910Encycl. Brit. III. 482/2 If the bottom is made on a hoop the butts of the stakes are ‘sliped’, i.e. cut away with a long cut of the shop-knife, and turned tightly round the hoop; they are then said to be ‘scallomed’ on. 1912T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making vii. 68 Having prepared the stuff, slype six bottom-sticks. Ibid. 154 Slype, a long cut. 1953A. G. Knock Willow Basket-Work 27 The blackberry basket,..requires a bow of stout rod fitted across the basket..by inserting its slyped ends down into the siding. 1959D. Wright Baskets & Basketry vi. 136 Slype, a slanting or flat cut. 1960E. Legg Country Baskets 52 The liners are duly slyped before insertion... Slyping is done whenever you need to shape a rod or cane to fit it snugly and securely against another. |