slip the noose by which greyhounds were held
before they were allowed to start for the game:
“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,”
HENRY V., iii. 1. 31.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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