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SLABBING
SLAB
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
slabbing
present participle of slab
Source: Wiktionary
Slab"bing, a. Etym: [See 1st Slab.]
Definition: Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces. Slabbing machine, a milling machine.
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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