sidelingn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌɪdlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsaɪdlɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English sidling, Middle English sidlinge, Middle English sydelynge, Middle English sydlyng, 1500s sydeling, 1600s sidelinge, 1700s– sideling; English regional 1800s siddlin (Northumberland), 1800s zidelin' (Somerset), 1900s– sidelin (Isle of Wight); also Scottish 1800s– sidelin, 1800s– sidling, 1900s– sidlans (perhaps plural).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ling suffix¹.

Etymology: < side n.¹ + -ling suffix¹.With use in sense 2 compare side adj. 2c. With plural uses in this sense perhaps compare also Older Scots sidlens , attested earlier in the sense ‘a steep slope, precipice’ and etymologized by Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) as a use as noun of sidelings adv. With the form sidlans perhaps compare also sideland n.

†1. A strip or piece of land lying beside a larger portion of land, or by a stream. Obsolete.Attested earliest as a field name.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip

sideling1250

tail1472

strake1503

vein1555

slip1591

neckland1598

slang1610

spang1610

screed1615

gore1650

spong1650

belt1725

slinget1790

stripe1801

strip1816

wedge1867

ribbon1923

1250 in P. H. Reaney Place-names Cambs. & Isle of Ely (1943) 343 (MED) Sidlinge.

1399 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 188 Fons de Goldwell..cujus aqua manat..præter dictas buttes, et ideo vocantur Sydelynges.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 369 The tythis of ix. buttis I-called Sydlyngis, liyng at the lowsy thorn, bitwene j. acre of lond..and j. pece of lond.

1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 387 A bracke betwixte two sydelings called the greate and little sydlings to be dammed uppe.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. Sidelinge, a ridge or butt of arable land lying along the side of a stream or river.

1726 Deed of Settlem. in W. Wing Antiq. Steeple Aston (1845) 44 One sideling of Pasture ground of about an acre.

2. Chiefly Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand. A slope or declivity, esp. one with a track or road running transversely along its face.In early use also in plural in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun]

hield943

lithOE

pendanta1387

bankc1390

slentc1400

shoring1567

rist1577

inclining1596

slope1626

side-slip1649

slant1655

sideling1802

hang1808

siding1852

counterslope1853

bajada1866

tilt1903

palaeoslope1957

1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry IV. Gloss. Sidlings, declivity.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. viii. 266 We..got upon a ‘sidling’ on the slope of the hill.

1864 A. J. Barrington Diary 30 Apr. in N. M. Taylor Early Travellers N.Z. (1959) 409 Continued on our course up the river—a very bushy sideling of a steep mountain gorge, with the white foam of the river some hundreds of feet below us.

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. xi. 230 A sideling that afforded no footing for his horse would necessitate a descent into the bed of the creek.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Most always there's a hare zittin' in thick there zidelin'.

1925 A. Bathgate Random Recoll. 25 When we reached the hills we passed along many a sloping piece of ground, called a sidling.

1957 Glasgow Herald 2 Mar. 3 Between the burn and the fence are ‘sidlings’—foothills too steep for the plough.

2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 8 240 hectares of flat to undulating contour, with the balance being rolling, medium-hill with steeper sidelings.

†3. U.S. A railway siding (siding n. 7). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > siding

siding1825

sideling1828

sidetrack1828

sideline1831

passing place1841

shunt line1904

lay-by1906

1826 W. Strickland Rep. Canals, Railways, Roads 25/2 The passing or sideling places are formed by solid cast iron branches.]

1828 Delaware Weekly Advertiser & Farmers Jrnl. 14 Feb. 3/1 It is proposed to construct the projected rail-road from Boston to Providence..with turnout places, or sidelings.

1836 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 30 Jan. 68/3 His cars must stand on the sideling until some engineer is sufficiently obliging to attach them to his train.

1875 Philadelphia Rep. 7 680 The rules..required him to remain on the sideling until both trains had passed.

1911 Code State of Georgia 1910 II. 106 Any gate, switch, sideling, or other appurtenances to any such railroad.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sidelingadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈsʌɪdlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsaɪdlɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English sidilyng, Middle English sidlyng, Middle English (in a late copy) sydlyng, Middle English–1500s sydelynge, Middle English– sidling, 1500s sidelyng, 1500s sydelyng, 1500s sydling, 1500s– sideling, 1600s sideline; also Scottish 1700s sidelin, 1700s sidelin', 1800s sidelan'.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ling suffix².

Etymology: < side n.¹ + -ling suffix². Compare Middle Dutch sidelinge , zidelinge (Dutch zijdeling , now rare), Middle Low German sīdlinge , Middle High German sītelingen , adverbs. Compare also sidelings adv., sidelong adv.¹, sidelong adj.²Attested earliest in the compound sidelingway (compare way n.¹) as a boundary marker in a late copy of a charter of 956 (see quot. c1155 at sense A. 1a); it is uncertain whether the word appeared in the lost original; the path referred to probably ran obliquely up a wooded slope (perhaps following the course of the modern parish boundary which ascends the slope in two successive doglegs). It is likely that, in spite of the chronology of the attestations, the adverb in fact existed earlier than the adjective.

A. adj.

a. Directed or moving sideways; sidelong, oblique. Of a look, glance, etc.: directed to the side or from the corner of the eye, esp. furtively, or with suspicion or disapproval. Also in figurative contexts.Recorded earliest in the compound sidelingway: see discussion in etymology.In some instances overlapping with and difficult to distinguish from sidling adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adjective]

sidelingc1155

sidelong1608

sideward?1617

sideway1650

sideways1684

sidelings1768

sidling1821

sidewards1827

sidewinding1867

sidestepping1902

crabwise1904

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having sideways direction

sidelingc1155

sidelong1608

sideward?1617

sideway1650

sidewise1680

sideways1684

side-on1900

sideways-on1964

the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned the reverse or wrong way > so that the top and bottom are at the sides

sidelingc1155

c1155 ( Bounds (Sawyer 593) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Bath & Wells (2007) 95 Up ofer feld on ða riht landgemære, on þone sidlingweg to wuda.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oblique,..sideling, bowed, winding.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 18 Sideling and oblique Accusations were admitted.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper ii. i. 18 The peaking Creature,..with a sideling look, as if one Cheek carry'd more byass than the other.

1763 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 304 The eye is carried by a sideling view down a length of lawn.

1771 J. Foot Penseroso v. 237 The sideling glance Of bigot malice.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 313 Henry struck him a sideling blow on the steel head-piece.

1845 G. Oliver Coll. Biogr. Soc. Jesus p. iii They cast no sideling glance to interest.

1890 H. Caine Bondman II. viii. 163 ‘We know you are watching him,’ he added, with a sideling motion of the head towards Government House.

1934 A. K. Coomaraswamy Transformation of Nature in Art iii. 106 They examine them again and again with sideling glances.

2004 C. Miéville Iron Council (2005) xxxiv. 547 By a sideling creep they went very slowly toward New Crobuzon.

†b. Tangential, not directly relevant; indirectly stated or expressed; not direct or straightforward. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective]

covert1393

sidelinga1500

implieda1535

insinuate1534

understood1576

implicative1602

insinuated1605

reserved1607

whispered1608

interpretative1610

implicit1613

tacit1637

tacid1651

adumbrative1751

inexplicit1827

inexpress1871

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 127 (MED) This argument is sideling [Fr. lateral] to the askyng.

1778 A. Ross Helenore (ed. 2) 119 For Nory's sake, this sideling hint he gae.

1828 New Monthly Mag. 22 386 It is painful to observe, what was good in former Acts of Parliament, perverted by interested persons, and sideling influence in other acts, passed subsequently.

†2. Situated towards or at the sides. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side

by1330

sideling?a1425

collateral1649

sideward1863

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 12 (MED) Templez, chekes, & maxillez bene laterale, i. sideling, partiez of þe face.

1552 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B iij b/2 The Chekes are the sydelynge parts of the face.

1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. C.iv^v [The] Parietales..be the bones of the sideling parts of the head.

1665 J. Davies tr. M. C. de La Chambre Art how to know Men ii. 306 The Thighs, which are very fleshy, and sideling, have a reference to the Cheeks, which have the same situation.

3. Of the ground: inclining, sloping, steep; spec. (of a track or trail) sloping transversely, so that one side is higher than the other.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [adjective]

clininga1552

sideling1577

sidelong1587

sideland1771

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 183/1 in Chron. I With present daunger of breaking theyr neckes downe the sidelyng bankes and craggie rockes.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Callate,..a sideling, or sloping peece of ground.

?c1642 in W. Page Victoria Hist. Somerset (1911) II. 381/1 In theire workeing and prosecuting the drift of the cole they were lighted on, drove the same into a sideling ground.

1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica III. 58 Think no more of levelling any otherwise than a cross the Walk, which ought not to be sideling.

1789 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 391 To a white oak, pine and reed oak Saplin on sidling ground.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 44 The green hill's sideling slope.

1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 246 It is a good plan to plough sidling ground in a circle.

1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 356/2 Never have I seen hills as sideling as these.

1919 Tractor & Gas Engine Rev. Oct. 14/1 A low center of gravity..allows the tractor to be operated on much more sideling ground than would be possible with a tractor having a high center of gravity.

1962 M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. viii. 182 What dog musher does not curse a sidling trail!

1986 Power Farming Oct. 118/4 On sidling ground they deflect the crop in the opposite direction to the slope.

†B. adv.

1. With a sideward movement; in a sidelong direction; sideways; obliquely. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb]

sidelonga1398

sidelings?a1400

sidelingc1425

laterallyc1454

collaterally?a1475

sidewarda1513

sidewise1531

byward1556

sideways1572

sidewards1575

sidelingwise1577

crabby1582

crab-like1605

sideway1847

crabwise1904

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction

sidelonga1398

sidelings?a1400

sidelingc1425

laterallyc1454

sidewarda1513

sidewise1531

besidec1540

sideway1561

sideways1572

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 6271 He rode to him euen sydilyng—Vn-til grounde he him bryng.

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 10348 Ȝyf any connyng man of þo Standeþ stille, or sidlyng can go, He may stande..Al so lange as hym god þynkes.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 113 Prothenor..Set hym a sad dynt Sydlyng byhynd.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 246 Such as retire from the Princes presence..go backward or sideling for a reasonable space.

1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. E2 Hee hath the witte yet, to enter sideling, like a Gentlewoman with an huge Farthingall.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 142 Crabs move sideling, Lobsters will swim swiftly backward.

1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus i. 14 If all his Atoms must descend Sideling, they'll never join one another.

1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 45 Sidelin to the fight They both come on.

1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 392 Or east, or west, or sideling to the north, Or south careering, it is follow'd still.

1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 554 To scale, to go, or make go, sideling.

a. To or on one side (of a thing). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on or at one side

sideOE

sidenhand?a1400

sidelings?a1425

sidenhands1440

sideling1543

sideway1561

side hand1577

atoneside1600

aside1610

sideways1673

sidewards1722

1543 R. Record Arithm. 132 b Farthynges..must be set in a voyde space sydelynge beneth the pennes.

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 349 Worcester House lies sideling of it.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 298 I sidling shelter'd in a neuk, An' at his Lordship staw a leuk.

b. With an inclination to one side. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > so as to incline to one side

asidec1369

asidesc1384

asidenc1503

sideling1585

sideways1645

sidewise1762

sidelong1879

baw-ways1907

1585 A. Golding tr. P. Mela Worke of Cosmographer 15 Cattell that graze sideling, with their neckes awrie, for their hornes growing downe to the groundwarde, will not suffer them to feede right foreward.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vii. 552 All Alexanders followers bare their heads sideling, as he did.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. i. viii I pray you sit right in your saddle, for you ride sideling, which proceeds, as I suppose, of the bruising you got by your fall.

1700 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote I. i. viii. 66 Sit a little more upright in your Saddle; you ride sideling methinks.

3. With the side toward something. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > side-on

sideling1548

sidelings1558

sidewise1588

sideways1598

sidelong1610

side-on1849

sideways-on1874

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. G.vj The enemies were in a fallowe felde, wherof the furrowes lay sydelyng towarde our men.

4. Facing to the side; (chiefly) spec. on a side-saddle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > on a side-saddle

sideling1603

sidelingsa1825

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlviii. 158 To ride vp and downe.., ever sitting sideling, as women vse.

1619 T. Middleton Triumphs Loue & Antiq. sig. C2^v Q. Anne..being the first that taught women to ride sideling on horsebacke.

1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 299 This Horse..upon which the Patriarch rides sideling.

1707 tr. M. Alemán Life Guzman d’Alfarache II. ii. i. 14 He Offends both the Right and the Left, and to content them both, stands Sideling, a very uneasy Posture for a Man that is attentive.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. ix. 125 Thus, sitting sideling, as women do, upon his beast, he jogged after his master.

1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 318/1 Rude fellows on horseback, of the roughest description, sat sideling on their torn saddles just before the President.

5. So that the top and bottom are turned to the sides. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adverb] > reversed or turned the wrong way > so that the top and bottom are at the sides

sideling1611

sideway1715

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Catagráphi, images or pictures standing biase or sideline.

1714 J. Swift Publick Spirit Whigs 7 A Fellow nailed up Maps in a Gentleman's Closet, some sideling, others upside down.

Derivatives

ˈsidelingwise adv. rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb]

sidelonga1398

sidelings?a1400

sidelingc1425

laterallyc1454

collaterally?a1475

sidewarda1513

sidewise1531

byward1556

sideways1572

sidewards1575

sidelingwise1577

crabby1582

crab-like1605

sideway1847

crabwise1904

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 128/2 in Chron. I Two Pictishe horsemen running at Colgerme sideling wise, bare him quite through.

1934 Bedford (Iowa) Times-Press 5 Apr. 6/6 She came to a stop all sidelingwise with the road.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sideling
释义	sidelingn. Brit. /ˈsʌɪdlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdlɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English sidling, Middle English sidlinge, Middle English sydelynge, Middle English sydlyng, 1500s sydeling, 1600s sidelinge, 1700s– sideling; English regional 1800s siddlin (Northumberland), 1800s zidelin' (Somerset), 1900s– sidelin (Isle of Wight); also Scottish 1800s– sidelin, 1800s– sidling, 1900s– sidlans (perhaps plural). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ling suffix¹. Etymology: < side n.¹ + -ling suffix¹.With use in sense 2 compare side adj. 2c. With plural uses in this sense perhaps compare also Older Scots sidlens , attested earlier in the sense ‘a steep slope, precipice’ and etymologized by Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) as a use as noun of sidelings adv. With the form sidlans perhaps compare also sideland n. †1. A strip or piece of land lying beside a larger portion of land, or by a stream. Obsolete.Attested earliest as a field name. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip sideling1250 tail1472 strake1503 vein1555 slip1591 neckland1598 slang1610 spang1610 screed1615 gore1650 spong1650 belt1725 slinget1790 stripe1801 strip1816 wedge1867 ribbon1923 1250 in P. H. Reaney Place-names Cambs. & Isle of Ely (1943) 343 (MED) Sidlinge. 1399 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 188 Fons de Goldwell..cujus aqua manat..præter dictas buttes, et ideo vocantur Sydelynges. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 369 The tythis of ix. buttis I-called Sydlyngis, liyng at the lowsy thorn, bitwene j. acre of lond..and j. pece of lond. 1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 387 A bracke betwixte two sydelings called the greate and little sydlings to be dammed uppe. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. Sidelinge, a ridge or butt of arable land lying along the side of a stream or river. 1726 Deed of Settlem. in W. Wing Antiq. Steeple Aston (1845) 44 One sideling of Pasture ground of about an acre. 2. Chiefly Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand. A slope or declivity, esp. one with a track or road running transversely along its face.In early use also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] hield943 lithOE pendanta1387 bankc1390 slentc1400 shoring1567 rist1577 inclining1596 slope1626 side-slip1649 slant1655 sideling1802 hang1808 siding1852 counterslope1853 bajada1866 tilt1903 palaeoslope1957 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry IV. Gloss. Sidlings, declivity. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. viii. 266 We..got upon a ‘sidling’ on the slope of the hill. 1864 A. J. Barrington Diary 30 Apr. in N. M. Taylor Early Travellers N.Z. (1959) 409 Continued on our course up the river—a very bushy sideling of a steep mountain gorge, with the white foam of the river some hundreds of feet below us. 1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. xi. 230 A sideling that afforded no footing for his horse would necessitate a descent into the bed of the creek. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Most always there's a hare zittin' in thick there zidelin'. 1925 A. Bathgate Random Recoll. 25 When we reached the hills we passed along many a sloping piece of ground, called a sidling. 1957 Glasgow Herald 2 Mar. 3 Between the burn and the fence are ‘sidlings’—foothills too steep for the plough. 2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 8 240 hectares of flat to undulating contour, with the balance being rolling, medium-hill with steeper sidelings. †3. U.S. A railway siding (siding n. 7). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > siding siding1825 sideling1828 sidetrack1828 sideline1831 passing place1841 shunt line1904 lay-by1906 1826 W. Strickland Rep. Canals, Railways, Roads 25/2 The passing or sideling places are formed by solid cast iron branches.] 1828 Delaware Weekly Advertiser & Farmers Jrnl. 14 Feb. 3/1 It is proposed to construct the projected rail-road from Boston to Providence..with turnout places, or sidelings. 1836 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 30 Jan. 68/3 His cars must stand on the sideling until some engineer is sufficiently obliging to attach them to his train. 1875 Philadelphia Rep. 7 680 The rules..required him to remain on the sideling until both trains had passed. 1911 Code State of Georgia 1910 II. 106 Any gate, switch, sideling, or other appurtenances to any such railroad. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sidelingadj.adv. Brit. /ˈsʌɪdlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdlɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English sidilyng, Middle English sidlyng, Middle English (in a late copy) sydlyng, Middle English–1500s sydelynge, Middle English– sidling, 1500s sidelyng, 1500s sydelyng, 1500s sydling, 1500s– sideling, 1600s sideline; also Scottish 1700s sidelin, 1700s sidelin', 1800s sidelan'. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ling suffix². Etymology: < side n.¹ + -ling suffix². Compare Middle Dutch sidelinge , zidelinge (Dutch zijdeling , now rare), Middle Low German sīdlinge , Middle High German sītelingen , adverbs. Compare also sidelings adv., sidelong adv.¹, sidelong adj.²Attested earliest in the compound sidelingway (compare way n.¹) as a boundary marker in a late copy of a charter of 956 (see quot. c1155 at sense A. 1a); it is uncertain whether the word appeared in the lost original; the path referred to probably ran obliquely up a wooded slope (perhaps following the course of the modern parish boundary which ascends the slope in two successive doglegs). It is likely that, in spite of the chronology of the attestations, the adverb in fact existed earlier than the adjective. A. adj. 1. a. Directed or moving sideways; sidelong, oblique. Of a look, glance, etc.: directed to the side or from the corner of the eye, esp. furtively, or with suspicion or disapproval. Also in figurative contexts.Recorded earliest in the compound sidelingway: see discussion in etymology.In some instances overlapping with and difficult to distinguish from sidling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adjective] sidelingc1155 sidelong1608 sideward?1617 sideway1650 sideways1684 sidelings1768 sidling1821 sidewards1827 sidewinding1867 sidestepping1902 crabwise1904 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having sideways direction sidelingc1155 sidelong1608 sideward?1617 sideway1650 sidewise1680 sideways1684 side-on1900 sideways-on1964 the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned the reverse or wrong way > so that the top and bottom are at the sides sidelingc1155 c1155 ( Bounds (Sawyer 593) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Bath & Wells (2007) 95 Up ofer feld on ða riht landgemære, on þone sidlingweg to wuda. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oblique,..sideling, bowed, winding. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 18 Sideling and oblique Accusations were admitted. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper ii. i. 18 The peaking Creature,..with a sideling look, as if one Cheek carry'd more byass than the other. 1763 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 304 The eye is carried by a sideling view down a length of lawn. 1771 J. Foot Penseroso v. 237 The sideling glance Of bigot malice. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 313 Henry struck him a sideling blow on the steel head-piece. 1845 G. Oliver Coll. Biogr. Soc. Jesus p. iii They cast no sideling glance to interest. 1890 H. Caine Bondman II. viii. 163 ‘We know you are watching him,’ he added, with a sideling motion of the head towards Government House. 1934 A. K. Coomaraswamy Transformation of Nature in Art iii. 106 They examine them again and again with sideling glances. 2004 C. Miéville Iron Council (2005) xxxiv. 547 By a sideling creep they went very slowly toward New Crobuzon. †b. Tangential, not directly relevant; indirectly stated or expressed; not direct or straightforward. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective] covert1393 sidelinga1500 implieda1535 insinuate1534 understood1576 implicative1602 insinuated1605 reserved1607 whispered1608 interpretative1610 implicit1613 tacit1637 tacid1651 adumbrative1751 inexplicit1827 inexpress1871 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 127 (MED) This argument is sideling [Fr. lateral] to the askyng. 1778 A. Ross Helenore (ed. 2) 119 For Nory's sake, this sideling hint he gae. 1828 New Monthly Mag. 22 386 It is painful to observe, what was good in former Acts of Parliament, perverted by interested persons, and sideling influence in other acts, passed subsequently. †2. Situated towards or at the sides. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side by1330 sideling?a1425 collateral1649 sideward1863 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 12 (MED) Templez, chekes, & maxillez bene laterale, i. sideling, partiez of þe face. 1552 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B iij b/2 The Chekes are the sydelynge parts of the face. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. C.iv^v [The] Parietales..be the bones of the sideling parts of the head. 1665 J. Davies tr. M. C. de La Chambre Art how to know Men ii. 306 The Thighs, which are very fleshy, and sideling, have a reference to the Cheeks, which have the same situation. 3. Of the ground: inclining, sloping, steep; spec. (of a track or trail) sloping transversely, so that one side is higher than the other. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [adjective] clininga1552 sideling1577 sidelong1587 sideland1771 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 183/1 in Chron. I With present daunger of breaking theyr neckes downe the sidelyng bankes and craggie rockes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Callate,..a sideling, or sloping peece of ground. ?c1642 in W. Page Victoria Hist. Somerset (1911) II. 381/1 In theire workeing and prosecuting the drift of the cole they were lighted on, drove the same into a sideling ground. 1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica III. 58 Think no more of levelling any otherwise than a cross the Walk, which ought not to be sideling. 1789 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 391 To a white oak, pine and reed oak Saplin on sidling ground. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 44 The green hill's sideling slope. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 246 It is a good plan to plough sidling ground in a circle. 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 356/2 Never have I seen hills as sideling as these. 1919 Tractor & Gas Engine Rev. Oct. 14/1 A low center of gravity..allows the tractor to be operated on much more sideling ground than would be possible with a tractor having a high center of gravity. 1962 M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. viii. 182 What dog musher does not curse a sidling trail! 1986 Power Farming Oct. 118/4 On sidling ground they deflect the crop in the opposite direction to the slope. †B. adv. 1. With a sideward movement; in a sidelong direction; sideways; obliquely. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 collaterally?a1475 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 byward1556 sideways1572 sidewards1575 sidelingwise1577 crabby1582 crab-like1605 sideway1847 crabwise1904 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 besidec1540 sideway1561 sideways1572 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 6271 He rode to him euen sydilyng—Vn-til grounde he him bryng. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 10348 Ȝyf any connyng man of þo Standeþ stille, or sidlyng can go, He may stande..Al so lange as hym god þynkes. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 113 Prothenor..Set hym a sad dynt Sydlyng byhynd. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 246 Such as retire from the Princes presence..go backward or sideling for a reasonable space. 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. E2 Hee hath the witte yet, to enter sideling, like a Gentlewoman with an huge Farthingall. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 142 Crabs move sideling, Lobsters will swim swiftly backward. View more context for this quotation 1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus i. 14 If all his Atoms must descend Sideling, they'll never join one another. 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 45 Sidelin to the fight They both come on. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 392 Or east, or west, or sideling to the north, Or south careering, it is follow'd still. 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 554 To scale, to go, or make go, sideling. 2. a. To or on one side (of a thing). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on or at one side sideOE sidenhand?a1400 sidelings?a1425 sidenhands1440 sideling1543 sideway1561 side hand1577 atoneside1600 aside1610 sideways1673 sidewards1722 1543 R. Record Arithm. 132 b Farthynges..must be set in a voyde space sydelynge beneth the pennes. 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 349 Worcester House lies sideling of it. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 298 I sidling shelter'd in a neuk, An' at his Lordship staw a leuk. b. With an inclination to one side. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > so as to incline to one side asidec1369 asidesc1384 asidenc1503 sideling1585 sideways1645 sidewise1762 sidelong1879 baw-ways1907 1585 A. Golding tr. P. Mela Worke of Cosmographer 15 Cattell that graze sideling, with their neckes awrie, for their hornes growing downe to the groundwarde, will not suffer them to feede right foreward. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vii. 552 All Alexanders followers bare their heads sideling, as he did. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. i. viii I pray you sit right in your saddle, for you ride sideling, which proceeds, as I suppose, of the bruising you got by your fall. 1700 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote I. i. viii. 66 Sit a little more upright in your Saddle; you ride sideling methinks. 3. With the side toward something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > side-on sideling1548 sidelings1558 sidewise1588 sideways1598 sidelong1610 side-on1849 sideways-on1874 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. G.vj The enemies were in a fallowe felde, wherof the furrowes lay sydelyng towarde our men. 4. Facing to the side; (chiefly) spec. on a side-saddle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > on a side-saddle sideling1603 sidelingsa1825 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlviii. 158 To ride vp and downe.., ever sitting sideling, as women vse. 1619 T. Middleton Triumphs Loue & Antiq. sig. C2^v Q. Anne..being the first that taught women to ride sideling on horsebacke. 1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 299 This Horse..upon which the Patriarch rides sideling. 1707 tr. M. Alemán Life Guzman d’Alfarache II. ii. i. 14 He Offends both the Right and the Left, and to content them both, stands Sideling, a very uneasy Posture for a Man that is attentive. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. ix. 125 Thus, sitting sideling, as women do, upon his beast, he jogged after his master. 1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 318/1 Rude fellows on horseback, of the roughest description, sat sideling on their torn saddles just before the President. 5. So that the top and bottom are turned to the sides. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adverb] > reversed or turned the wrong way > so that the top and bottom are at the sides sideling1611 sideway1715 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Catagráphi, images or pictures standing biase or sideline. 1714 J. Swift Publick Spirit Whigs 7 A Fellow nailed up Maps in a Gentleman's Closet, some sideling, others upside down. Derivatives ˈsidelingwise adv. rare ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 collaterally?a1475 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 byward1556 sideways1572 sidewards1575 sidelingwise1577 crabby1582 crab-like1605 sideway1847 crabwise1904 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 128/2 in Chron. I Two Pictishe horsemen running at Colgerme sideling wise, bare him quite through. 1934 Bedford (Iowa) Times-Press 5 Apr. 6/6 She came to a stop all sidelingwise with the road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1250adj.adv.c1155
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