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Glide
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Glide is a card sleight used to control the top or bottom card keeping it at that position during a deal. It comes from the French equivalent term, glisser la carte (glide [or slide] the card).
The term has been in use in English since Roterberg (1897).
Descriptions
- The Slide, page 116 in Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs (1877)
- New Era Card Tricks by August Roterberg (1897) page 42.
- The Royal Road to Card Magic By Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, page 66.