aslide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially the timid; but to-day every ice-boat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share."
- "A shower of cinders through the air . . . A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . ."
- "Another [dance], in which one man seemed to fly, one to pursue, in which the hunted seemed to invite the hunter, with a swift skirting movement, his feet aslide, and one elbow crooked—that was the eternal invitation to pursuit and capture, the love-chase of high antiquity."
- "Another pirate had landed there and a third was just arriving, two more aslide behind him."
- "We pour buckets of hot water into the washtub and gather wintergreen to sprinkle in. […] Mistress stands up and rushes to him. Her naked skin is aslide with wintergreen."
Etymology
From a- + slide.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Inflected Forms
more aslide (comparative)
most aslide (superlative)