Dictionary entry

Slope (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Slope, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sloped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sloping.] To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.