Definition of "slopingly" [slopingly]

• At a slope; slantwise; obliquely. (adverb)

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• "It was one of those long, low racing boats, steered with a wheel like a motor-car, and slopingly decked over in front to shield the driver."
• "Very different these from the concomitants of half a sheet of ruled paper, scrawled over as if chickens had been walking upon it, and folded slopingly, and held loosely together by a wafer!"
• "It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow."