slape

Faith, it's mighty little slape any of ye will get, once you're ashore.

On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

There'll be mighty little slape this night for any of us. '

On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

And I've larned that goose to slape in it, so I have, and an awful job it was, too.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys

Larry an 'mesilf, we'll slape in the kitchen, an' it's hopin 'I am you'll kape that shoinin', too.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys

I'll lift the bag for ye, me darlint, an 'I'll pit clane sheets on Bridget's bed, and ye're welcome to slape there as long as ye like; for the Blessed Mother knows it's powerful tired ye're lookin', it is.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859

"Bad luck till 'em," grumbled the other, "jumpin 'aboord a gentleman's boat like that, and turnin' iverything topsy-turvy, so that ye don't know where ye kin foind a place to slape at all."

Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie

There's clane sthraw in the barn, an 'I'll slape there till mornin'. '

Adrift in the Ice-Fields

On another occasion, at Wentworth House, the gardener cautioned her: 'Be careful, miss, it's slape' (using a provincial form for 'slippery'), while she was descending a sloping piece of turf, where the ground was wet.

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901

_Pat: _ "Shure, and what good is it to me now whin oive me new job av night watchman an 'slape in the day toimes?"

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers

"Kape quiet, will ye, and let the poor lamb slape!"

Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse