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slide dues Hist. 
a charge made for running timber down a slide (def. la).
See also: slidage (def. 2) slide (def. 1a)
- 1846 (1957) [He] recommends another boom beeing thrown across the River at the Mouth of the Trent to insure also collection of the Slide dues.
- 1933 Along the larger streams many of the slides were constructed by the government and a small charge was made for their use; in 1861, for example, the "slide dues" collected in Canada amounted to $55,546.
- 1846 (1957) [He] recommends another boom beeing thrown across the River at the Mouth of the Trent to insure also collection of the Slide dues.