aslide

Sliding.

It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially the timid; but to-day every ice-boat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share.

A shower of cinders through the air . . . A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .

Covered (with something sliding).

We pour buckets of hot water into the washtub and gather wintergreen to sprinkle in. […] Mistress stands up and rushes to him. Her naked skin is aslide with wintergreen.