LekhoriLekhoriTo lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, […]
To err.
There is one that slippeth in his speach, but not from his heart, and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?
To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
An act or instance of slipping.
I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
A twig or shoot; a cutting.
a slip from a vine
From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slippian, from Proto-West Germanic *slippjan, from Proto-Germanic *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *sl...
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A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
The Wasserpfeife or water-whistle from Moravia was a bird whistle made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. […] The bird is of a grey and brown mottled glaze with sgraffito markings and touches of green slip.