aslope
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English *aslopen, from aslupan (“to slip away”)
Adjective
aslope (comparative more aslope, superlative most aslope)
- slanted or sloping
- 1911, Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Honor of Israel Gow
- Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
- 1911, Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Honor of Israel Gow
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