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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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SLIPE, n.1, v.1 Also slyp(e), slip. [sləip]

I. n. 1. A wooden platform or drag without wheels used for moving heavy or cumbersome loads, of stones, hay, peat, etc., over difficult or rough places, a kind of sledge (Lth., Cld. 1825 Jam., slyp(e); Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl.; m. and s.Sc. 1970). Also in n.Eng. dial.; specif. in mining: a curved wooden box on iron runners for taking coal away from the cutting-face (Lth. 1842 Children in Mines Report II. 95, 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 62). Combs. slipe-car, id., slype-draught, the load transported by a slipe.Sc. 1712 Fountainhall Decisions II. 755:
The way of importing ale is upon sleds and stypes [sic], whereon the brewers put two nine gallon trees.
Sc. 1749 Session Papers, Petition J. Kincaid (4 Dec.) 3:
Above 1000 Slype-draught of Stones.
em.Sc. 1794 W. Marshall Agric. Cent. Highl. 34:
An implement still more rude and simple than the Highland plow is the sliding cart, or “slipe”; which, for the works of harvest, is now in common use. It is formed of two long poles, framed together shaft-wise. The smaller ends are fastened to the hames, in the manner of other shafts, the larger ends sliding upon the ground.
Slg. 1842 Children in Mines Report II. 479:
My employment . . . is to fill a bogie, or slype, with 2½ to 3 cwt. of coal.
Fif. 1904 Dundee Advertiser (15 Aug.) 6:
The hay ‘slipes' or ‘slids' for shifting the coles or ricks to the shed.
Uls. 1951 E. E. Evans Mourne Country 132:
The horse-drawn slipe is sometimes used for carrying turf.
Gall. 1955 Quest No. 20. 13:
The stones were carried on hand-barrows, and on slypes where the ground was suitable for horses.
ne.Sc. 1957 Abd. Press & Jnl. (4 Oct.):
The slipe proper, however, was a strongly built sledge with concave runners shod with iron used for the conveyance of logs crosscut in the woods to loading places.
Ayr. 1992 Sheila Douglas ed. The Sang's the Thing: Voices from Lowland Scotland 38:
In these days it was horse work on farms, and they used tae mak the rucks in the hayfield an tak them intae the farm steading on a ruck lifter or a slipe, as we caaed it in Ayrshire. There was a ratchet and a pulley wheel at the front an ye took a rope roon either side o' the ruck and cleeked it in at the back an ye winched it up ontae the ruck lifter. I remember driving these rucks back.

2. A rail or wooden runner by which barrels or the like are unloaded from a lorry (wm.Sc., Rxb. 1970).

II. v. tr. To transport by means of a drag or sledge, to haul (a load) on a slipe (Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl.; Sc. 1948 Country Life (8 Oct.); m.Lth., Dmf., Uls. 1970), to drag, in gen.; in Mining: to transport (coal) by means of a slipe; intr. “to move freely, as any weighty body which is dragged through a mire” (Slk. 1825 Jam.). Deriv. sliper, slyper, one who transports by means of a slipe, the driver of a slipe.Sc. 1702 Records Conv. Burghs (1880) 328:
Fees and fraughts of the mettsters, inland skippers, slypers.
Lth. 1842 Children in Mines Report II. 180, 453:
Sometimes I have to slype 100 to 300 fathoms. . . . Slyping is dragging with harness over shoulders and back.
em.Sc. 1926 H. Hendry Poems 96:
Men wha could grab ye, head and heel, And slype ye to the Muckle Deil.
m.Lth. 1935:
I was slypin stanes on the hill for the dyker.

[O.Sc. slyp, a sledge, 1475; L.Ger. slipe, a sledge, Mid. Du. slijp, a kind of drag or harrow.]

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