slipes

I had a little slipe or two up there before, and havin 'a little money from my cattle, lumber, and sich, I went in and bought a few slipes more, jest to kind of fill in like, and

Gordon Keith Thomas Nelson Page 1887

In this he was frequently mistaken: for though the still-house was in many cases inaccessible to horses, yet by the contrivance of slipes -- a kind of sledge -- a dozen men could draw a couple of sacks of barley with less trouble, and at a quicker pace, than if horses only had been employed.

Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Had it not existed, Islamic civilization would never have gotten off the ground, just as, in the absence of the horse, we in the West would still be lugging barrows and scraping along in donkey-hauled slipes.

Pajamas Media David Solway 2010