Slide.
1. An inclined plane down which logs are driven to a lower level.The timber slides of the Alpnach in Switzerland are remarkable.
The log chutes of the Ottawa occur occasionally on 200 miles of that river, to avoid stoppage of the logs on the riffles.
2. (Steam-engine.) The guide-bars of a box or cross-head.
3. A slip of glass, usually 3 × 1 inches, on which a microscopic object is mounted. The thin glass for covering the object is made from 1/50 to 1/250 of an inch thick. Glass slides are usually of flatted crown.
4. A sliding shutter to an aperture, as of a darklantern.
5. (Ordnance.) The lower part of a ship's carronade or howitzer carriage, on which the top carriage rests and is run in and out. It corresponds to the chassis of a land-fortification carriage.
