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Definition of Slype

Slype
Slype Slype, n. [Cf. D. sluipen to sneak.] (Arch.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. [Eng.]

Meaning of Slype from wikipedia

- The term slype is a variant of slip in the sense of a narrow p****age; in architecture, the name for the covered p****age usually found in monasteries or...
- School: 273–4. Gourlay, A.B. (1971). "The Slype". A History of Sherborne School: 304–5. Gourlay, A.B. (1971). "The Slype". A History of Sherborne School: 305...
- known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard...
- at the bottom of Cheap Street. Owned by Sherborne School since 1550, the slype is a lean-to building against the north transept. It is all that remains...
- was built in 1968 as an extension of Brennan Hall. The Soldier's Memorial Slype connects the college quadrangle with Queen's Park, its sandstone walls etched...
- ****ignations. [...] After 449, Anglo-Saxon grooms received their brides' 'slype-scoes' (slip-shoes) from their fathers-in-law as symbols of protection and...
- the bells for the war and established a fire watch, with the pump in the slype. After the war, in the 1950s, the organ was removed, rebuilt and reinstalled...
- with fragrant herbs. To the east lay the sacristy, the chapter house, the slype or p****age to the infirmary, and the monks' day room. Of these the main...
- south of the church. Adjoining the south transept are the ruins of the slype, a vaulted p****age leading to the canons' cemetery. Of the south range the...
- itself, and part of the east cloister range, including the still-vaulted slype, all built of local red sandstone. The monastic church itself had a single...