Lope vs Slither - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To jump, leap.
*, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
*:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
*Middleton
*:He that lopes on the ropes.
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
:He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between lope and slither
is that lope is to jump, leap while slither is to move about smoothly and from side to side.As a noun lope
is a horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.lope
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(en verb)- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.