SLOPE (4)

slope (4)|slopewise|slopingly. Slope, or Slopewise, or Slopingly, ad. obliquely

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Slope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sloped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sloping.] To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.