cover-slipn.
1. Cricket.
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a. An extra fielder sometimes placed to back up the two slips (short-slip and long-slip).
b. His position in the field.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > fielding position > specific
bat's end1742
midwicket1744
middle wicket1772
long-stop1773
long field?1801
third man1801
point1816
slip1816
backstop1819
cover1836
long field on1837
short stopc1837
long on1843
middle-on1843
short leg1843
cover-point1846
square leg1849
long off1854
mid-off1865
leg slip1869
mid-on1870
cover-slip1891
box1911
gully1920
1854 J. Pycroft in F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers (ed. 7) 14 Cover Point, and Long Slip, or Cover Slip..require particular practice to allow for the curl of the ball.
1891 Daily News 23 June 3/7 He was let off..by Wilson at cover-slip.
2. A slip of thin glass used for covering a microscopical preparation; = cover-glass n. at cover n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > cover slip
cover-slip1875
cover-glass1881
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. x. 99 Transfer a Hydra..on to a slide; cover in plenty of water with a large coverslip.
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row iii. 22 The corner of the physiology lab…with his microscope..and his bottles of stains and box of slides and coverslips.
1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles (ed. 2) xviii. 306 Another brass tube also holding a thin glass cover-slip fits into the first tube.
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