Log in or Sign up
  1. snow-slide love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An avalanche; also, any mass of snow sliding down an incline, as a roof.
  2. n. In lumbering, a temporary slide on a steep slope, made by dragging a large log through deep snow which is soft or thawing. When frozen solid, the track may be used to slide logs to a point at which they can be reached by sleds.

Examples

  • “In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills.”

    Squidpunk…It Might Just Be Go-Time?…

  • “In the second act, Hulk and the humans separately stumble upon different parts of the Louvre, recently uncovered via a snow-slide from its icy entombment.”

    Archive 2008-03-01

  • “He describes a calm day when a great white mass rose out of the sea 'like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills.”

    The Wind from The Sun

  • “The snow-slide was like a long, flat cart with runners instead of wheels - an elongated sleigh.”

    Five Get Into A Fix

  • “Morgan went first, pulling the big snow-slide easily.”

    Five Get Into A Fix

  • “He took hold of the ropes at the front of the snow-slide and ran them over his shoulders.”

    Five Get Into A Fix

  • “Carlota Juanita stood in the door, waving to us as long as we could see her, and Manuel P.F. sat with Mr. Stewart to guide us around the snow-slide.”

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader

  • “The whole way was blocked, and what to do we didn't know, for the horses could hardly be gotten along and we could not pass the snow-slide.”

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader

  • “There had been a snow-slide and the cañon was half-filled with snow, rock, and broken trees.”

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader

  • “A dried-up mummy of a man advanced from the fire to meet us, explaining that he had seen us through his field-glasses and, knowing about the snow-slide, had ventured to attract us to his poor place.”

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘snow-slide’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for snow-slide.

‘snow-slide’ has been looked up 193 times, added to 1 list, and is not a valid Scrabble word.