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Slabbering :: Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabbe.

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..

Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.

Tile :: Tile (n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.

Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Bevel :: Bevel (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber..

Slab :: Slab (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces..

Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..

Table :: Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab..

Slabby :: Slabby (a.) Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy.

Backjoint :: Backjoint (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..

Slabberer :: Slabberer (n.) One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot..

Hone :: Hone (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone..

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

Slabbered :: Slabbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slabbe.

Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..

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