[The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

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