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slope

Another name for gradient.
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The other bank of the stream was open ground -- a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
To the unaided eye there is nothing but a black figure on a white horse, tracing slow zigzags against the slope of a distant hill - so slowly they seem almost to creep.
A Son of the Gods by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The stalls were laid on a slope instead of being level, and as my head was kept tied to the manger, I was obliged always to stand on the slope, which was very fatiguing.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
 
 
 
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