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1an. — Lumbering
an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.
Quotations
1836
On Saturday last the new slide, to facilitate the passing of the Chaudier falls was opened, and the first crib run.
1875
The first slide, on the north side of the Ottawa, was built in 1829 by Philemon Wright, and was subsequently purchased by the Government for $40,000.
1891
At one side of the fall a "slide" is built--that is, a contrivance something like a canal, with sides and bottom of heavy timber, and having a steep slope down which the water rushes in frantic haste to the level below.
1948
No "improvements" are noticeable, unless the old 1800 foot slide to by-pass Aubrey Falls, or the rotting dam above the Falls, can be called improvements.
1964
Shooting the slides on cribs took many a lumberjack's life.
1bn. — Northwest
a fast-moving stretch of water over a relatively smooth bed. See 1955 quote at riffle (def. 1c).
See: riffle ((n.))(def. 1c)
Quotations
2a†n.
the mass of earth, rocks, etc. deposited by a landslide.
Quotations
1866
On prospeckin' I still was bent ;/Had shares in a' the kintra side,/In shafts gaun' doon thro' slum and slide. . . .
1908
The men had to cope with the swift current, bordered by a series of steep gumbo slides, where the tracking was hazardous. . . .
1957
. . . at the foot of the slide lay ten dead wild sheep, which appeared either to have been tumbled by the avalanche or to have been hit by an aircraft.
2b†n.
the part of a mountain side over which an avalanche or landslide has passed, recognizable as an area bearing a growth of grass and shrubs rather than trees.
See: slide course
Quotations
1916
. . . the growth on these slides varies . . . according to the exposure; and while one slide may be quite green, another may have snow on it.
3n.
an artificial runway built on a hill for the use of tobogganists.
Quotations
1870
Our illustration shows . . . a fair sprinkling of pleasure-seekers trying to enjoy the national toboggan adown its steep slides.
1898
The perfection of tobogganing is found on the artificial slides which are raised to a dizzy height, with a wide, deep trough, coated with snow and ice, pitching toward the ground at a fearful angle.
1927
The slides are specially constructed of ice sides. . . .
4n. — Nfld
See 1933 quote at catamaran (def. 2b).
See: catamaran ((n.))(def. 2b)
Quotations
1665
[We overloaded our slide on that rotten ice. . . .]
1906
Said he, "We're all right now, sir. Here's an old slide-path."
1937
To swamp a road or path is to build one with a bedding of boughs to be used in hauling slide loads of wood in winter.
1957
And the old dog Rex was harnessed next and hitched fast to the slide.
5†n.
See 1948 quote.
See: sliding(def. 1)
Quotations
1920
The animals [otters] may be seen sliding down and climbing up again for hours on end, evidently in a state of keen enjoyment. Trappers take advantage of this habit to capture the otters at their slides.
<i>c</i>1948
The best place to make a set is where the otter amuse themselves sliding down steep banks until they have made a "slide."