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Slape

To ‘slape’ off…slippery, also from Icelandic – to become fee, to escape, to get off.
It is thought possible that the Yorkshire dialect forms had the early meaning ‘to slip away’. Also in Yorkshire – slape ale is a free ale or a beer bought for you by someone else.

Submitted by: Karen Smith

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