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  1. slypenoun

    A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house.

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  1. Slype

    The term slype is a variant of slip in the sense of a narrow passage; in architecture, the name for the covered passage usually found in monasteries or cathedrals between the transept and the chapter house, as at St Andrews, Winchester, Gloucester, Exeter, Durham, St. Albans, Sherborne and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. At St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, it is, with the chapter house, one of only two remaining rooms. In general, the Benedictine chapter-house, as it took form in England, was an oblong room about twice as long as wide ... either north or south of the transept, from which it was separated by a narrow passage or chamber called a "slype." Its place is supplied by the Sacristry in Cistercian houses. It occurs in the Clugniac convent of Bromholme, and in that of Austin Canons at Newstead. At New college, Oxford, it is the passage between the backs of the houses and the city walls ....

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slypenoun

    a narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery

  2. Etymology: [Cf. D. sluipen to sneak.]

Wikidata

  1. Slype

    The term slype is a variant of slip in the sense of a narrow passage; in architecture, the name for the covered passage usually found in monasteries or cathedrals between the transept and the chapter house, as at St Andrews, Winchester, Gloucester, Exeter and St. Albans.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slype

    slīp, n. a. covered passage from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter-house, &c. [Slip.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slype in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slype in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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