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slide n SED iv, 151 So for sense 1.
   1 1986 HISCOCK 115 'And the young fellas there--I gave them a quarter...to get them to take me down over the hill on a slide.' 1987 FIZZARD 139 And [then the men] would load the horse and slides [with the heavy block of ice].
   3 Attrib, comb ~ load, ~ path.
   1858 [LOWELL] i, 81 I was acomun down Backside from the Cosh, hau'ling a slide-load o' timber. 1981 SPARKES 150 When told that there was no charge at all, he said: 'Would it be all right if I gid ee a slide-load o' wood?' 1896 Trade Review Christmas No. 20 Spell...means to carry on the shoulder from the woods to the slide path. 1988 GOSSE 5 Another byroad known as the 'slide path' also connected with the New Harbour Road and bisected the Neils' extended holdings from south to north.

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