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Gliddery

Glidder \Glid"der\, Gliddery \Glid"der*y\, a. [Cf. Glide.] Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.]

Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.
--R. D. Blackmore.

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gliddery

a. (context UK dialect English) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

Usage examples of "gliddery".

West Gate, on a narrow red gliddery, he waited with the other petitioners who had come to enter the Academy.

He shot down the gliddery into cold, hard air, and in moments he had left Lavi Square behind him.

Eighty-one steps lead from the ice of the main gliddery to the doorway.

So saying, he bowed deeply to Danlo and then ambled down to the gliddery and snapped in his skate blades.

Just then a group of journeyman horologes in bright red robes clacked down the gliddery in front of the warming pavilion.

The house stood on the east side of the gliddery, and it was much the largest on the block.

Strawberry Street is a red gliddery, whereas all the streets in the Bell except the main one are of purple.

He followed him onto a well-lit purple gliddery lined with apartments and various shops.

Then they skated up the old gliddery that leads from the Academy straight to the great circle outside the Hofgarten.

As I stumbled out onto the gliddery I remember praying that he would be wrong.

My hands were numb as I slipped it into the pack I wore at the small of my back I struck off down the gliddery in a hurry.

There came the grinding speed-stop of a skater from the gliddery outside.

For days, I could not skate down the most out-of-the-way gliddery without some novice tugging on the sleeve of a schoolmate and pointing at me in awe.