SLABBED

SLAB

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

slabbed

simple past tense and past participle of slab

Anagrams

• dabbles

Source: Wiktionary


SLAB

Slab, n. Etym: [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, v. i.]

1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. Gwilt.

2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]

4. (Naut.)

Definition: The slack part of a sail. Slab line (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. Totten.

Slab, a. Etym: [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river strand, and E. slop puddle.]

Definition: Thick; viscous. [Obs.] Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak.

Slab, n.

Definition: That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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