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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 93 Slip, (l) sb. h pinufore. (2) 9b. a young pig. (3^ V, to let slip or escape from puuisliment ' If ye do that again, see if I slip ye for it.' Slipe, (1) 8b. a triangular framework of wood on which large houlder stones are drawn out of fields; a large trough, like a cart without wheels, used for drawing earth or wet peat from one part of a field or boff to another ; a kind of sledge on which stones are drawn down hiUy roads. (2) v. * To slips stones ' » to draw them out of a field on a ' slipe.' ' To slipe mud ' a to carry it in a ' slipe * from the bog-hole to a level place where it is spread out to harden and cake into turf. Slip of a girl, ab. a young, growing girl. Slither, v. to slip or slide. Sliyer, sb. Flax in process of being spun by machinery is drawn out into a ribbon or long lock before it is twisted : this lock is called sliver, Sliyer can, sb, a tall cylinder of tin in which the ' sliver ' is coiled away and then carried to the * roving frame * to get the first twist. • Sloak, sh a seaweed, laver, Porphyra laciniata. Called in the Co. of Clare * sluke ' or * slukane/ Slobbering bib, sb, a small, thick pinafore worn by infants. Slockan, v. to quench fire or thirst. Sloiterin', Sluterin', v. loitering or lingering about pretending to work. Slonk, Slump, ab. a ditch ; a deep, wet hollow in a road. Slonky, adj, having muddy holes. ^ That aJonky road.' Sloosh, ab. a sluice. Sludge, ab. wet mud. Blnmmage, ab. a soft stuif produced . at distilleries used for cattle feeding. Slump, (1) ab, a muddy place. 'The road was all slnmpa of holes.' (2) V, to sink in mud. Slunge, (1) ab, a skulking, sneaking fellow. (2) V. to slink or lounge. Slurry, ab, mud ; *glar.' 'I took eight buckets of black alxmnj out of liis well.' Sluttherin', Swattherin', v. applied to the noisy, slopping way that ducks feed. Slype, V. to strip the branches off trees. * They would come and slype them down in the night for no use. '