1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 633*Slip-Bend, when a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or over⁓board.
1798 Capt. Miller in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. p. clviii,We hove up to our best bower..and got a *slip buoy on the end of our sheet cable.
1930 A. E. Newton ThisBk. -Collecting Game ii. 20Many collectors, in binding their books or in having *slip cases made for them,..have their novels..in one colour, their poetry in another.
1942 W. Stevens Let. 17 Sept. (1967) 420,I should like the general effect of the binding to be light... There should, of course, be a slip case.
1966 P. J. Kavanagh Perfect Stranger xiii. 187Why not put all three into a slip-case..and sell them as a set? [ volumes]
1977 Gramophone May 1738/2 Decca have also made again available this month an integral recording of the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, previously issued in a slip⁓case but now in a box.
1979 Amat. Photographer Feb. 54/3 Both versions are supplied in a gift outfit with flash unit, slip case and wrist chain at a price of about {pstlg}85.
1969 Times 15 Nov. p. iv/6 ( Advt. ),Magellan's Voyage.. 2 volumes *slipcased.
1978 Amer. N. & Q. Nov. 44/2A handsome slip-cased volume..seems to be under-priced.
1562 T. Phaer æneid ix. Cc ij,You must haue..gay ioly Jerkins, saffron shirts, Your *slipcoats must haue sleeues.
1847 W. C. L. Martin The Ox 166/1Let the *slip-cords be applied to the fore-legs, and held by an assistant.
1886 Home Decoration 3 Apr. 79/1 The *slip covers for the furniture are of..toile.
1911 . [ see klaxonn. ]
1920 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 395/2Slip Covers for Ford Cars... Set consists of cover for each seat and back of seats, doors, kicking pad for front seat and complete cover for hood.
1952 S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) iii. 36Cora had, of course, made all the curtains, slip covers and bedspreads herself.
1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood ii. 78The couch..that Nancy had slip-covered.
1978 T. Gifford Glendower Legacy 75The slipcovers were wearing out at the arm.
1947 Shell Aviation News No. 112. 8/3One of the most important problems is that of aircrew fatigue, and research on this question includes investigation into..provision of ‘*slip’ crews at strategic points, facilities for crew rest in aircraft.
1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing xix. 196The RAF are not carrying a slip crew on this trip. They would need to rest before the return flight.
1961 ‘B. Wells’ Day Earth caught Fire iii. 39This is terrific stuff. We'll have a *slip edition.
1975 T. Allbeury Palomino Blonde iv. 12Issues of the Northumberland Gazette with slip editions for Morpeth and Berwick.
1848 Fraser's Mag. XXXVIII. 428The empty, tattered Past,..the greased *slipfinger Present.
1919 Engineering 11 July 33/3 The minimeter for comparing *slip gauges to an accuracy of one-millionth of an inch is another of the new precision instruments.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Language vii. 47In order to combine two slip gauges, they are slid together with slight pressure.
1897 E. K. Scott Local Distribution of Electric Power in Workshops 53The current at starting a heavy lift can be materially reduced by having a *slip gear or belt, so as to enable the motor to get up speed.
1930 Engineering 4 Apr. 431/2 An electric motor fitted with a centrifugal clutch and slip-gear.
1785 Grose Dict. Vulgar T.s.v. Scapegallows,A *slip gibbet, one for whom the gallows is said to groan.
1521 in Inderwick Cal. Inner TempleRec. (1896) 63shoffe boorde [ None of the society shall play within the Inn at the game called] *slypgrote. [ or]
1659 Lady Alimony iv. vi, As I hope for mercy, I am half-persuaded that this *slip-halter has pawned my clothes.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. 356*Slip hook..is ‘especially useful on shipboard in securing and slipping towing cables, etc.’
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2212/1Slip-hook..may be disengaged or slipped by the motion of a trigger, a sliding ring, or otherwise. [ The]
1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words & their Background iv. 45*Sliphorn, trombone.
1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. i. 120He doesn't play a valve trombone either, just a regular slip-horn.
1957 Melody Maker 4 May 6/2 Wilbur himself was somewhat subdued, using both slip-horn and valve, but what he did was pleasant trombone.
1829 G. Griffin Collegian I. ii. 19Eily was dancing with a strange young gentleman..and..he would not let her go until she had finished the *slip jig.
1895 Cath. News 13 July 2/3He would not let her go until she had finished the slip jig.
a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 284The lads who believe that in slip-jigs we have a national prophylaxis make life less stark.
1876 Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 234If the pipes are iron, one of them has to be broken; where this is unavoidable a *slip joint is afterwards employed to protect it—that is to say, two half pipes..are placed one over and the other under the break; they are screwed together and the ends tightly packed.
1930 Walker & Crocker PipingHandbk. vii. 504Slip joints are used very extensively in water and saturated-steam lines.
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations ii. 6Slip joints compensate for vertical motion in the lower section of the drill string.
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2212/1*Slip⁓link, a connecting link which allows a certain freedom of motion.
1837 *Slip noose . [ see lasson. 1]
1847 W. C. L. Martin The Ox 166/1It may be necessary to put a slip noose on each fore limb.
1897 G. C. Bateman Vivarium 225A properly-contrived slip-noose.
1896 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-Electric Machinery (ed. 4) iii. 35There must..be sliding contacts to maintain the coils of the revolving field-magnet part in continuous metallic connexion with the auxiliary exciting circuit. In either case the appropriate device consists of a pair of *slip rings, against each of which a brush presses.
1958 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 46/1Automatic starting of slip-ring electric motors has always presented many problems.
1974 Physics Bull. May 204/2Special emphasis is placed on the study of aluminium as a contact material in place of copper for sliprings and commutators.
1953 Times 11 Feb. 3/3 A ‘*slip-road’ a mile and a half long..would draw away from the narrow streets of High Barnet the great number of heavy lorries now passing through this congested centre.
1968 W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze iii. 36He took the slip road on to the Autobahn.
1979 A. Price Tomorrow's Ghost ii. 17He waited to leave the slip⁓road for the motorway proper.
1750 T. R. Blanckley NavalExpos. 136*Slip Ropes for triseing up the Bites of the Cable to the Rails of the Head.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 287Slip-rope, a rope bent to any thing in such a manner that it may be slipped when required.
1909 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. iii. ix. 177If there is much strain on the slip rope, it should be eased before letting it go.
1964 Slip rope . [ see honda]
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Nov. 15/3 Ringle, while clearing loose dirt with the aid of a horse and *slip scraper, lost his footing and fell.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses 113Throwing dirt..faster than a slip scraper could have done it.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 117/1A ‘*slip-screw’, viz. , one in which the threads do not bite, and the screw turns round in its receptacle.
1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 633*Slip-Shackle, a shackle with a lever-bolt, for letting go suddenly; yet, when ringed, is sufficient to secure the ship.
1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop xiv. 237Never use enameled paper for *slipsheets, or the sheets will stick together.
1924 ― Essent. Printing x. 149While an expert feeder can sometimes do his own *slipsheeting, it is customary to have an assistant place the slipsheets as the printed sheets are stacked on the feedboard.
1949 Melcher & Larrick Printing & PromotionHandbk. 279/2This slip sheeting assures a clean job of mimeographing where it is necessary to print on non-absorbent paper.
1957 Jackson & Cleverdon Printing iii. 139/2Clean unprinted newspaper..makes good slip sheets.
1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry vii. 516/2In two-sided printing..it may be necessary to ‘slip-sheet’ the job. (Slip-sheeting means that a sheet of waste paper is inserted after each printed sheet. When the ink is dry the slip sheets are removed.)
1826 Hone Every-dayBk. II. 1352Walnuts *slip-shelled are heaped in a basket.
1641 Milton Animadv.Wks. 1851 III. 205A pretty *slip-skin conveyance to sift Masse into no Masse, and Popish into not Popish.
1887 Archit. Soc. Dict. VII. 90*Slip Sole, the term in some parts of Scotland for a step.
1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 227*Slip Spear, a tool for extracting tubing from a borehole.
1665 Manley Grotius' Low-C. Wars 21Altogether forgetful..that they preferred before him a Bastard, *slip-sprung from an unlawful coition.
1872 Young Englishwoman Oct. 558/1 Work 2 *slip-stitches on the first 2 chain.
1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlwk. 125/1Slip Stitch, a stitch much used in Raised Crochet, both in joining together detached sprays, and in passing from one part of a pattern to another at the back of the work.
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 92/2Single Crochet (or Slip-stitch)..is used for making a very narrow row.
1951 Good Housek. HomeEncycl. 58/1Tack, and slip-stitch by hand.
1964 McCall's Sewing ii. 32/1 Slip-stitch, tiny hand-stitches taken through and under a fold of fabric where the stitching must be invisible.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 3/3The silk should be turned over on the right side and *slip-stitched.
1896 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 10/7Ties.—Good *slipstitchers for derbys, outdoors.
1673 Hickeringill Greg. F. Greybeard 242Plung'd themselves into perplexities, or into Parson *slip-stockins extravagancies.
a1680 Butler in D'Urfey Pills (1719) III. 334Slip-stocking Similitudes.
1698 Collier Immor. Stage ii. 60This lady's fancy is just slip-stocking-high, and she seems to want sense more than her breakfast.
1831 Ann. Reg. LXXIII. 445The apparatus is kept in place by what is called a *slip-stopper, a sort of catch-bolt, which can be unlocked at pleasure, by merely pulling a trigger. [ for releasing the life-buoy]
c1860 H. Stuart Seaman'sCatech. 54The slip stopper..is used for stoppering the cable,..to prevent the cables running out of the hawse-hole.
1799 Monthly Rev. XXX. 367All carry lances, which, when on horseback, by means of a *slip thong, they sling to a rest in the stirrup.
1579 Rice Invectiveagst. Vices B ij b,What to dooe there? To Bowle, or to plaie at Dise, or Cardes, Penipricke, or *slipthrift?
1621 Granger Eccles. 273Thus it is in the house of prodigals, drinking slipthrifts, and Belials.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §371*Slip winder; winds silk threads, for use in lace making, from hanks or cops on to spools or bobbins.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 16 Dec. 17/5 ( Advt. ),Wanted male or female experienced slip winder (cone to spool).
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 778/2*Slip winding (Textiles), the process of transferring yarn from a hank to flanged bobbins in lace manufacture.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 143The *slip-bar-gate is a form of gate often used.
1726 Swift Gulliver ii. viii,I..ventured to draw back the *slip-board on the roof.
1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 285In square wicker⁓work panniers with *slip-bottoms.
1900 J. J. Vernon Parish of Hawick 1711–1725, 167Interring tramps..by means of ‘a *slip coffin’, i.e., a coffin which upon being lowered..by ropes attached to it, could be recovered, the body being left in the grave.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 927The spindle may be attached to another shaft..by means of a *slip-coupling.
1764 Lloyd ActorPoet. Wks. 1774 I. 19But in stage customs what offends me most Is the *slip⁓door, and slowly-rising ghost.
1881 Mechanic §444. 194 The *slip feather that is to be pressed into the grooves to hold the boards.
Ibid. 193The modes..adopted for this juncture of pieces of wood are..known respectively as rebating,..grooving and *slip feathering . [ etc.]
1859 Bartlett Dict. Amer. 167A *Slip gap is a place provided in a fence, where the bars may be slipped aside and let down.
1795 Holcroft in Kegan Paul W. Godwin (1876) I. 149,I fell from a *slip ladder, and broke it fairly in two.
1938 Shelf Appeal July 26/2 The *slip-lid tin was evolved rather over fifty years ago.
1979 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 8Slip lid, a lid that fits over the mouth of the container body.
1864 E. A. Murray Ella Norman I. 161Jock..rode on, until he came to some *slip panels; these he let down.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush Life Queensland II. xxviii. 107His step, as he bowled up to the slip-panel, was brisk and energetic.
1742 A. Monro in Med. Ess. Edinb. V. 455A Spring which keeps the Handles asunder..till the *Slip⁓ring or Slider is thrust towards the End of the Handles. [ of a needle-holder]
1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 823/2*Slip Shave, a point or shave made to slip over the nose of the mold-board.
1869 Echo 23 Aug., A ‘slip’ carriage placed in the rear of the train, which is dropped at Hatfield.
1884 G. W. R. Time Tables July 33 Slip Coach detached at Bridgewater.
1898 Daily News 11 Oct. 8/1 Entering the slip compartment, one finds little to differentiate it from a small guard's van.
Ibid. ,Where the detached slip-portion has collided with the train it has just left.
1920 Flight XII. 957/1 Seventeen tanks may be readily slipped overboard to act as ballast. These slip-tanks have no bottom connections, and petrol is drawn from them by means of a semi-rotary pump.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 8The party..belonged to the slip-coach for Athens.
1978 Lancs. Life Apr. 52/2The L & Y..brought in slip coaches, notably at Rochdale where two trains from Bradford to Manchester unhitched the back two coaches without stopping.
1849 Maitland ReformationEng. xx. 559It would be less worth while to read Fox's *slip-along stories.
1828 Carr CravenGloss. ,*Slip-down, old milk, a little curdled, which readily slips down the throat.
1859 Sala Gaslight & D. xxii. 252He knows all the *slip-in and slip-out public-houses in London.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 18/2Both slip-in and paste-on mounts, upon which the photographs can be mounted with the minimum of trouble.
1815 Clan-Albyn xiii. (1853) 66 [ Mrs. Johnstone] Hugh flung his *slip-on around him.
1904 Ladies Field 14 May 426/1 The ‘Slip-on’ coat for all weathers.
1920 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 395/3Running Board Mat. Fastened with patent slip-on fasteners.
1923 Ibid. 214/3One of the smartest of the new models ..a double-breasted ‘slip-on’, with yoke. [ of coat]
1938 . [ see scuffn. 1 4]
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 5/1 ( Advt. ),Wear Right gloves... Shorties and slipons all hand-sewn.
1956 People 13 May 3/7 ( Advt. ),Slip-on Casual. Brown Willow uppers, leather sole.
1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Dec. (Easterned. ) 17/4‘Slim slip-ons’, or dressy shoes without laces, will be promoted for men.
1965 N.Y. Times 9 Dec. 5 (Advt. ),Hand-in-Glove with fashion:..Elbow-deep slipons.
1972 J. Ball Five Pieces of Jade xiv. 178Tibbs..noted the slip-on shoes which..could be shed within a second or two.
1978 L. Charteris Saint in Trouble (1979) i. iii. 33His eyes..started with the suede slip-ons, journeyed up..the light grey suit.
1982 Barr & York Official Sloane RangerHandbk. 33/2These are smart tough slip-ons, in black or dark blue patent or leather, with a chunky heel and gilt snaffle or chain across the top.
1859 *Slip-out . [ see slip-in above]
1919–20 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall & Winter 153/3*Slip-over Nightgown.
1923 Daily Mail 6 Mar. 1 ( Advt. ),Elastic bust bodice of special value, slip-over shape.
1936 Times 10 Jan. 7/4 Bargains for men include poplin shirts at 9s. 6d. and all wool slip-overs at 10s.
1941 Picture Post 3 May 32/1 Pullovers, Slipovers, and Beach Shirts for men and boys.
1945 Richmond ( Va. ) Times-Dispatch 9 Jan. 16 (Advt. ),All-wool slipover sweater.
1962 Punch 26 Sept. p. xvii, Burberrys have..reversible alpaca slip-overs.
1981 Times 6 Jan. 12/7 According to numerous shop window displays observed during the current sales, the garment I have always called a pullover is now known as a slipover.
1909 N.Y. Even. Post (semi-weeklyed. ) 30 Sept. 1Should there be any *slip-up in the present plans.
1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 21 Dec. inColl. Essays (1968) IV. 459,I suppose there may be some slip-up, but if not my address..will be The Cotswold Sanatorium.
1978 H. Jobson To die a Little ii. 26,I..had a slight feeling of apprehension... Had there been some legal slip-up?
ORIGIN: from slip verb 1 or noun 3.