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Definition of Sliddery
1. slippery [adj] - See also: slippery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliddery
Literary usage of Sliddery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Reminiscences by Sir Archibald Geikie (1904)
"Highland Chiefs—Second Marquess of Breadalbane ; late Duke of Argyll. Ayrshire
Lairds—TF Kennedy of Dunure; 'sliddery Braes'; ..."
2. Scottish Reminiscences by Archibald Geikie (1904)
"Highland Chiefs—Second Marquess of Breadalbane ; late Duke of Argyll. Ayrshire
Lairds—TF Kennedy of Dunure; 'sliddery Braes' ; Smith of ..."
3. Ossian and the Clyde: Fingal in Ireland. Oscar in Iceland, Or Ossian by Peter Hately Waddell (1875)
"... the great stream—now sliddery water, then the fiord of sliddery and one of
the largest in the island— on the banks of which, to the west, ..."
4. Ossian and the Clyde: Fingal in Ireland. Oscar in Iceland, Or Ossian by Peter Hately Waddell (1875)
"... and sliddery—one of the bleakest in all Arran, and across which the first
tidings of her ... the great stream—now sliddery water, then the fiord of ..."
5. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1898)
"The principal sections are found in three parallel, small, nameless branches of
the main stream of the sliddery Water, which rise in the higher ground to ..."
6. Ossian and the Clyde, Fingal in Ireland, Oscar in Ireland, Or Ossian by Peter Hately Waddell (1875)
"... and sliddery—one of the bleakest in all Arran, and across which the first
tidings of her ... the great stream—now sliddery water, then the fiord of ..."
7. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"There's a sliddery stanc afore the ha' door. [It is sometimes dangerous to visit
great houses.] —ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Proverbs, Though I to foreign lands ..."
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