Sloper

If one saw only the Rheims benches, one would scarcely prefer the slopers to horizontal retorts with good stoking machinery ; as for instance the Ross stoker at the Cincinnati gas works.

Yeah, that new pair of half-slopers really works — a lot better than the old inverted-V they're made from, ha ha!

The wages of slopers, so far as they have been found designated as such on the pay rolls, are given in Table 63.

In this work he displayed an energy and courage that not only disgusted the slopers, but likewise astonished the police authorities.