sloping

Etymology

adj

1. Having a slope.
   a sloping roof
   The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, page 27

verb

1. present participle and gerund of slope

noun

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.