Definition of Glidder

1. a. Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

Definition of Glidder

1. glid [adj] - See also: glid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glidder

glibbest
glibbing
glibenclamide
glibenclamides
glibly
glibness
glibnesses
glibs
glicentin
glicke
glickes
gliclazide
glid
glidant
glidden
glidder (current term)
gliddery
gliddest
glide
glide-bomb
glide by
glide path
glide ratio
glide slope
glided
glidepath
glidepaths
glider
glider gun
gliders

Literary usage of Glidder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[Cf. AS. glid (once), slippery, 'glidder (not authenticated), slippery, ... [< glidder + -y1.] Slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Two men led my mother down a steep and ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"glidder. Slippery.—Hal. B. Jonson speaks of a galley-pot being well glid- dered, ie glazed. ... Da. dial, glidder, slippery ..."

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