slidden
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪdən
Verb
[edit]slidden
- (archaic) past participle of slide
- 1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket[1]:
- These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment.
- 1898, Marshall Mather, Lancashire Idylls (1898)[2]:
- In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden.