slider n also slider board. Cp EDD ~ sb 1 So, DAE 1 (1887 quot) for sense 2.
1 Movable board or cover placed over ship's companion-way, 'trunk-hole' of a fishing boat, or on the side of a fish-box, etc.
1966 SCAMMELL 39 'Old woman said she thought she heard a motorboat sometime before daylight,' ventured Lige, kicking the slider off the trunkhole. T 453-67 The water'd just keep pourin' [down] the sides of the companion, 'cause it should be that the slider boards, as they call it, were down forrard. We got them down an' stopped most of it. 1971 NOSEWORTHY 244 Slider-board. A board which was placed in the open side of a fish-box as the fish was salted and packed up.
2 Child's home-made sled; SLIDE n.
M 69-6 The best riding was on slider-boards. A kind of toboggan made from barrel staves.
