Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To lean, tilt or incline. · To bias or skew. · To lie or exaggerate.
Sloping; oblique; slanted.
A slope; an incline, inclination. · A sloped surface or line. · A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. · Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
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This page abbreviates 11 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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