c1886 Kipling Railway Folk 63A *slide bar about red hot.
1869 Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. F 9,An inclined groove is formed in the tup, in which a *slide block is fitted.
1841 Browning Pippa Passes 225Push the lattice..; of course The *slide-bolt catches.
1763 Museum Rust. I. 94 These loads are carried in baskets fixed on *slide-cars.
1861–2 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. IX. 145Some time after..what were called slide-cars were used, that is, carts without wheels.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 291The *slide-clutch, with a slide-rib, being now placed on the shaft.
1926 Whiteman & McBride Jazz ix. 206The jazz band has introduced some little known instruments such as..the *slide cornet and the czimbalon.
1946 Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) i. 12He showed up in the band room with a slide cornet.
1853 Ure Dict. Arts I. 228,g is the charcoal-meter, with a *slide door.
1879 Stevenson Ess. Trav. , Amateur Emigrant (1905) 23Through the open slide-door we had a glimpse of a grey night sea.
1875 Martin WindingMach. 84It is of very great importance not to multiply..such things as slide-valves and *slide-faces.
1934 Newsweek 21 July 29/2 The Prince of Wales uses a *slide fastener on his trousers.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Sept. 7/4 The B. F. Goodrich Company announced today development of a ‘zipped lip’ construction that makes a metal slide fastener watertight and airtight.
1971 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel vi. 135‘Let's have a look at the robe.’.. A slide fastener ran right down the back.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 293A *slide-frame in which two leading pulleys, mounted in a case, are fitted to slide in the vertical direction.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl. vi. 106The draught is regulated commonly by *slide-gates, but various methods may be employed.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 241*Slide Guage.. [ The] a measuring instrument consisting of one fixed and one sliding jaw. [ is]
1869 Rankine Machinery & Millwork 571In this machine the tool-holder..slides vertically in a guiding groove in the *slide-head.
1881 Raymond MiningGloss. ,*Slide-joint, a connection acting in rod-boring, like the jars in rope-boring.
1885 C. G. W. Lock WorkshopRec. Ser. iv. 239/2There are two kinds of plough in use..termed respectively ‘bolt knife’ and ‘*slide knife’.
1833 Holland Manuf. Metal II. 142An ingenious contrivance, known as the *slide-lathe.
1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 528The slide-lathe, and..the planing-machine and many other most invaluable tools.
1791 Selby Bridge Act 34 The *slide leaf or leaves of the said bridge.
1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 634The back-stay is fixed to the *slide plate.
1844 *Slide-rib . [ see slide-clutch]
1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 446,h, the *slide rod, on which the knife f is fixed.
1876 Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 172The slide rod being removed, the iron pole is fixed in its place.
1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 633The nut of the *slide screw..is made with two tails.
1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 324For turning faces of wheels, hollow work, &c. where great accuracy is wanted, Mr. Maudslay has contrived a curious apparatus, which he calls a *slide-tool.
1891 C. R. Day Descr. Catal. Musical Instruments, R. MilitaryExhib. x. 180*Slide trombone... In this instrument, as should always be the case, the taper of the bell is carried right through the tuning slides.
1934 Hound & Horn July–Sept. 595 The harpsichord seems a very complicated instrument to compare alongside the single-noted valve trumpet, or a slide trombone.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xiii. 269How we could brighten our Church Fêtes up, short of breaking all the Ten Commandments simultaneously to a fanfare of slide-trombones.
1885 G. B. Shaw in Mag. of Music II. 112/1These *slide trumpets are not the instruments Bach wrote for.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 594/1The slide trumpet is mentioned by T. E. Altenburg , who compares it, and with reason, to the alto trombone. [ 1795]
Ibid. ,The slide trumpet is still used in England in a somewhat modified form.
1939 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Fall–Winter 914/3*Slide whistle. Professional model... Has full chromatic scale of two octaves.
1976 Gramophone Feb. 1355/2 The flight grows slower to reveal gentle tones of slide-whistles, zither and harp.
1885 J. Dredge Electric Illumination II. i. 53The *Slide-Wire, or Metre Bridge..is a modification of the bridge due to Kirchoff, and is especially useful for the measurement of low resistances.
1922 Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 714/2The first bridge to employ a slide wire was devised by Fleeming Jenkin in 1862 and was used to intercompare the standard coils made for the British Association Committee on Electrical Standards.
1964 Oceanogr. & MarineBiol. II. 359The depth element is a Bourdon tube coupled to a slide-wire potentiometer.
1969 A. Brodgesell in B. G. Lipták Instrument Engineers'Handbk. I. ix. 942Potentiometric displacement sensors consist of a slide wire and wiper. The slide wire is powered by a constant voltage representing full scale travel.
1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §226The slide-ladder, which was very strongly lashed down to eye-bolts.
1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 12The slide-ladder used by brewers in loading and unloading their carts.
1856 Olmsted Slave States 550The boat came to the shore at the foot of a plank slide-way.
1883 Scotsman 11 July 5/2 The ways were new, and made of oak and pine, with guide-battens on the inner edges of the slideways.
1959 Sunday Times 7 June 16/6 The ‘*slide area’ itself is that part of the Californian coast which is physically slipping, dropping and sliding towards the sea.
1970 Wall St. Jrnl. (Easterned. ) 19 May 1/4The Kildares live in what is euphemistically called here a ‘slide area’.
1925 Year-bk. WirelessTelegr. 847When a control room is some distance from the transmitter it is usual to install a valve voltmeter with a *slideback which either measures the voltage across the output of the main amplifier or indicates when a certain voltage is exceeded.
1931 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1932 356The ‘slide-back’..consisted of a valve or similar device so biassed that no indication occurred until there was present and superimposed upon the bias a voltage greater than, and opposing in phase, the biassing voltage.
1938 H. A. Brown Radio-FrequencyElectr. Measurements (ed. 2) vi. 279Peak, or slide-back, voltmeters are coming more and more into use.
1948 A. L. Albert Radio Fundamentals ix. 354There is an error involved with this slide-back voltmeter, but with large signals..the error is small.
1965 Wireless World July 19 ( Advt. ),Slide-back measurement of time and amplitude by means of directly-calibrated shift controls.
1890 Bauerman Metallurgy Iron 178The so-called *slide-blowing engines, where the flap valves are replaced by a slide similar to that used in steam engines.
1953 A. Pearlman Rollei Manual xxiii. 357Sticky exudations may foul the *slide carrier of the projector.
1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 224/2An adequate beam can be formed by making a pinhole aperture in the slide carrier of a 35-millimeter projector.
1895 G. E. Davis Pract. Micros. (ed. 3) 376In mounting objects, a *slide-centerer should be employed.
1959 IRE Trans. Mil. Electronics III. 97/1Like a projection *slide changer, we can observe one slide while discarding the slide already observed and replacing it with a new one.
1962 Which? Mar. 69/1 We did not test fully automatic projectors, but 6 had semi-automatic slide changers built in.
1881 C. A. Edwards Organs 109In this instrument is an arrangement called the ‘*Slide Coupler’.
1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues i. 35Another..version was recorded in 1937 by Black Ace (B. K. Turner) who accompanied himself with brilliant *slide guitar playing.
1969 Rolling Stone 22 Apr. 16/5 W. C. Handy first heard the blues and a slide guitar in 1903 when he happened upon an itinerant black musician in..Mississippi.
1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 23/2 And inevitably those ubiquitous sessioners, Klaus Voorman (bass)..and Jesse Ed Davies (slide guitar), have played a major part.
1977 McKnight & Tobler Bob Marley ix. 111The Wailers version is decorated by an ethereal slide guitar solo.
1987 Washington Post 1 Mar. f6/4 Olney also turns in some burning, bluesy slide guitar.
1973 G. Davey Fun with Hi-Fi v. 35The BSR MacDonald playing deck which I use has *slide-in facilities for fitting the cartridge of one's choice.
1977 Gramophone Apr. 1629/2 The head⁓shell has a slide-in cartridge carrier.
1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin II. 356,I would suggest to *slide-makers a more extended use for their work.
1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 471The employment of the two, or the three *slide movements, to which method Mr. Nasmyth has judiciously applied the term ‘Slide Principle’.
1846 *Slide principle . [ see slide movement above]
1956 E. S. Bomback Retina Manual xxi. 222 (caption)The Leitz Prado 150-watt *slide projector.
1979 P. Niesewand Member of Club ii. 17Two slide projectors were being positioned... ‘Remember, when the lights go out, we'll be showing some slides.’
1901 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1900 195In the mountains we often find the hillside slopes covered with broken rock of various sizes. This we call *slide rock.
1974 Flint & Skinner PhysicalGeol. vii. 121/2Weathering converts the sliderock into fine-grained regolith which, with its pores of extremely small diameter, can hold much more moisture than sliderock and thus acquire both vegetation and soil.
1956 E. S. Bomback Retina Manual xxi. 222The color *slide show has quite a lot in common with the motion picture film.
1978 Peace News 25 Aug. 18/3 On their last visit to Britain four years ago they did a slide show and a question and answer session.
1971 Publishers' Weekly 22 Mar. 20/2 The final part of the program..consisted of a *slide-tape commentary.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer'sHandbk. 305Sound for slide-tape presentations can be prepared from studio recordings using a microphone direct.
1960 Which? Oct. 228/2 *A slide viewer should give a good optical performance.
ORIGIN: Repr. slide verb or noun .