slipe

Compare slip (verb).

slipe (plural slipes)

1. A sledge runner on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Piles, Siple, piles, plies, pliés, spiel, spile

Probably from Middle Low German slipen; compare with Danish slibe and Swedish slipa.

slipe (imperative slip, present tense sliper, passive slipes, simple past slipte, past participle slipt, present participle slipende)

1. to grind
2. to sharpen, hone (a knife, also figurative)
3. to polish (e.g. marble, also figurative)
4. to cut (crystal glass, precious stones)

• “slipe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “slipe” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Probably from Middle Low German slipen

slipe (present tense slipar/sliper, past tense slipa/slipte, past participle slipa/slipt, passive infinitive slipast, present participle slipande, imperative slipe/slip)

1. to grind
2. to sharpen, hone (a knife, also figurative)
3. to polish (e.g. marble, also figurative)
4. to cut (crystal glass, precious stones)

• slipa

• “slipe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.