slank
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First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank.
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German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus.
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Dr. Merrick took them up, and slank noiselessly from the room, murmuring as he went some inarticulate words to the effect that he had only desired to serve her.
From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant
The rear was even worse, as men slank off from it at every opportunity.
From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
O. N. slakki, a slope, Norse slakke, Dan. slank.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias