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Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

Gunter Rig :: Gunter rig () A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

Slidden :: Slidden () p. p. of Slide.

Outslide :: Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding..

D Valve :: D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide..

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Slide :: Slide (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down..

Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

Slidegroat :: Slidegroat (n.) The game of shovelboard.

Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Toboggan :: Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question..

Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..

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