slidden

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪdən

Verb

slidden

1. (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.

Anagrams

• dindles, liddens