A place for a vessel beside a wharf; also a narrow pew.
1796. The abominable custom of filling up slips and docks with similar materials.—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Aug. 6.
1796. The whole block of buildings included between that slip [Coffee-house Slip, New York], Front Street, and the Fly Market.—The Aurora, Phila., Dec. 13.
1820. The slips were filled with hogsheads, barrels, spars, staves, shingles, crates, and lumber of every description, which the water and immense cakes of ice carried high up, where they were left on the fall of the tide.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 26: from the N.Y. Daily Advertiser.
1832. The Slips, so called, were originally openings to the river, into which they drove their carts to take out cord wood from vessels. (Coenties Slip, Beekman’s Slip, Burling’s Slip, &c.).—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 171–2.
1838. The slips [in the Mormon Temple at Kirtland, Ohio] are so constructed as to permit the audience to face either pulpit at pleasure.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ ii. 113 (N.Y.).
1840. Selling or renting the pews, slips, or sittings for money.—Millennial Star, Aug., p. 103.
1843. Some half a score of the fair sex came tumbling into the slip behind me, without any regard to the centre of gravity, or the pronunciation of French.—Yale Lit. Mag., viii. 123 (Jan.).
1850. See PICAROON.
1853. A young gentleman who had occupied a vacant slip in the broad aisle.—Oregonian, July 2.
1854. Antiquated gentleman in same slip.—Id., Dec. 9.
