Slab
[slæb]
Definition
(n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
(n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
(n.) The wryneck.
(n.) The slack part of a sail.
(a.) Thick; viscous.
(n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
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Definition
adj. thick.—n. mud.—adj. Slab′by muddy.
n. a thin slip of anything esp. of stone having plane surfaces: a piece sawed from a log.—v.t. to cut slabs from as a log.—adj. Slab′-sid′ed having long flat sides tall and lank.—n. Slab′stone flagstone.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- If there is a slab roof the air must blow freely between this roof and the top covering. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- On the center slab two are cut, one in the exact middle of either end. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The floor may be slabs, and the roof a covering of brush to hold the packing to its place, if a slab roof is not readily made. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- When spoons are to be plated, they are hung in a bath of silver nitrate side by side with a thick slab of pure silver, as in Figure 209. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Four brass chains support a slab of wood about 28 inches long by about 8 or ten inches in width. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He had ground the ink upon a slab. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then he carried the slab and the ax back into the cave, ducking under the blanket as he came in, and leaned them both against the wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Each slab is here automatically wrapped in wax and silver-foil papers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Other stone-cutting machines had for their objects the cutting and moulding the edges of tables, mantels and slabs; and the cutting of circular and other curved work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This keeps all slabs level with each other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The floor may be slabs, and the roof a covering of brush to hold the packing to its place, if a slab roof is not readily made. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the two end slabs they are cut on the two outside corners. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The complete, wrapped packages of five slabs slide along a little runway into boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the slate bed is laid, the slabs, doweled as the leaves of an extension dining table, are fitted together and screwed to the frame. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And they made exceedingly solid and heavy bread, because round flat slabs of it have been got out of these deposits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The machine operator drops the slabs of gum into a feeding chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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