Swipe – Spring
Swipe
Synonymous with "slog" (q.v.).
Skip
The captain of a side, who gives his men elaborate advice as to the play, and controls the sweeping. Also called Director and Driver.
Sole
(1) Noun; the base of the curling-stone. (2) Verb; to deliver the stone on the ice.
Soop
Scottish command for "sweep."
Souter
To score a love game; not to allow the opponents to score, as certain souters (shoemakers) of Lochmaken are said to have done. Speil.-[See BONSPEIL.] Spend the stone. - To play a wasted shot.
Striking
Hitting with a stone another placed on the tee with sufficient force to drive it out of the circle.
Stug
A shot gained by accident.
Saddle
In driving, a pad laid across the back of a horse. The backband runs over the top, and the shaft tugs are supported from it, the bellymen a standing toast was "Shouldering-but don't let me catch you at it."
Shy
To spring suddenly either sideways or backwards from fear, or from excess of spirits.
Skid or Slipper
- An iron shoe with flanges retained by a chain from the perch or axle, which fitting under the hind-wheel prevents its revolving. Now practically superseded by the brake except for very steep hills.
Snaffle
A bridle with a light bit and unprovided with a curb. Splinter-bar.- The transverse timber to which the wheelers' traces are affixed.
Split quarter-strap.-A variety of the hip or quarter-strap, in which the strap is divided about half-way down the horse's side, and attached to the breeching in two places.
Spring
Of the coachman; to put the horses to a gallop.