Definition of slab

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

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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..
Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..
Beslabber :: Beslabber (v. t.) To beslobber.
Slabbering :: Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabbe.
Slabbery :: Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy..
Tanite :: Tanite (n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc..
Slabber :: Slabber (v. i.) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool..
Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..
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..
Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..
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..
Slabbing :: Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces..
Slaver :: Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Slab-sided :: Slab-sided (a.) Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank..
Puncheon :: Puncheon (n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons..
Table :: Table (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working..
Slobber :: Slobber (v. t. & i.) See Slabber.
Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..
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..
Slabber :: Slabber (n.) A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
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