aslideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ slide

形容詞

aslide (comparative more aslide, superlative most aslide)

1. Sliding.
   • 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker, New York: James O’Kane, 1867, Chapter 19, p. 140,^[1]

     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.

   • 1912, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, “The Slag” in Fires, Book III: The Hare, and Other Tales, London: Elkin Mathews, p. 13,^[2]

     A shower of cinders through the air . . .

     A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .

   • 1922, Maurice Hewlett, “The Morris” in Extemporary Essays, Oxford University Press, p. 158,^[3]

     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.

   • 1959, Poul Anderson, “The Sky People” in Maurai and Kith, TOR, 1982, p. 53,^[4]

     Another pirate had landed there and a third was just arriving, two more aslide behind him.

2. Covered (with something sliding).
   • 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, p. 70,^[5]

     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.