"aslide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, chapter 19, in Hans Brinker, New York: James O’Kane, published 1867, page 140",
          "text": "It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially the timid; but to-day every ice-boat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share.",
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          "ref": "1912, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, “The Slag”, in Fires, Book III: The Hare, and Other Tales, London: Elkin Mathews, page 13",
          "roman": "A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .",
          "text": "A shower of cinders through the air . . .",
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          "ref": "1922, Maurice Hewlett, “The Morris”, in Extemporary Essays, Oxford University Press, page 158",
          "text": "Another [dance], in which one man seemed to fly, one to pursue, in which the hunted seemed to invite the hunter, with a swift skirting movement, his feet aslide, and one elbow crooked—that was the eternal invitation to pursuit and capture, the love-chase of high antiquity.",
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          "ref": "1959, Poul Anderson, “The Sky People”, in Maurai and Kith, TOR, published 1982, page 53",
          "text": "Another pirate had landed there and a third was just arriving, two more aslide behind him.",
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          "ref": "2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 70",
          "text": "We pour buckets of hot water into the washtub and gather wintergreen to sprinkle in. […] Mistress stands up and rushes to him. Her naked skin is aslide with wintergreen.",
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        "Covered (with something sliding)."
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