v. (UN-2 4.) Also fig.
1598. Florio, Scoppare, to vntile, to vnslate.
1637. Saltonstall, Eusebius’ Constantine, 70. Some of the Chappels by his command were unslated.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., To the Detracter. A fellon take it, or some Whit-flaw come For to unslate, or to untile that thumb!
1795. Coleridge, Lines at Shurton Bars, 39. Where stands one solitary pile Unslated by the blast.
1872. Brierley, Cotters of Mossburn, xxiii. He’s gone clean off his head. Unslated.
