Slipe, Slype

Type

Mud, River

Area of origin

Sussex

Area of use

Sussex (waning)

A mud-flat on a river bank but not on a sea coast. So named on the Courtwick Manor map of 1759 [in respect to] the banks of the Arun at Clymping Reach. [Rev W.D. Parish; A Dictionary of The Sussex Dialect 1875]

Etymology

Uncertain

Example locations

  • Clymping Reach (?)
    River Arun, Littlehampton, West Sussex

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Entry contributors:

Rev W.D.Parish