ˌcover-ˈslip
1. Cricket. a. An extra fielder sometimes placed to back up the two slips (short-slip and long-slip). b. His position in the field.
| 1854 F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers 14 Cover Point, and Long Slip, or Cover Slip..require particular practice to allow for the curl of the ball. 1891 Daily News 23 June 3/7 He was let off..by Wilson at cover-slip. |
2. A slip of thin glass used for covering a microscopical preparation; = cover-glass (cover n.1 8).
| 1875 Huxley & Martin Course Elem. Biol. x. 99 Transfer a Hydra..on to a slide; cover in plenty of water with a large coverslip. 1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row iii. 22 The corner of the physiology lab{ddd}with his microscope..and his bottles of stains and box of slides and coverslips. 1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life (ed. 2) xviii. 306 Another brass tube also holding a thin glass cover-slip fits into the first tube. |