Slab

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  • adjective. Viscid.
  • noun. A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
  • noun. An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
  • noun. The pitcher's rubber.
  • transitive verb. To make or shape into slabs or a slab.
  • transitive verb. To cover or pave with slabs.
  • transitive verb. To dress (a log) by cutting slabs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Moist earth; slime; puddle; mud.
  • To cut slabs or outside pieces from, as from a log, in order to square it for use, or that it may be sawn into boards with square edges.
  • Thick; viscous; pasty.
  • noun. The wryneck.
  • To keep (the sides of any excavation, as a mining-shaft or a well) from crumbling and falling by facing (them) with slabs, either of timber or of stone.
  • noun. In Australia, a piece of timber, two or three inches thick, ax hewn, not sawed: used for the walls of rough houses. Also used attributively.
  • noun. A flat mass of metallic tin cast in a chilling mold of stone or metal.
  • noun. plural A commercial name of crude rubber in pieces an inch or two thick formed by pressing several sheets together. See rubber, 3.
  • noun. A thick piece of timber; especially, the outer cut of a tree or log when sawed up into planks or boards.
  • noun. A thick plate of stone, slate, metal, etc.
  • noun. In general, a piece of anything solid and compact, heavy, and thin in proportion to its length and breadth, but thick enough not to be pliable, especially when of considerable size.
  • noun. Specifically A flat stone, or plate of iron or glass, on which printing-ink is sometimes distributed for use on a hand-press.
  • noun. A thick web or bat of fiber.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
  • noun. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
  • noun. The wryneck.
  • noun. The slack part of a sail.
  • noun. a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail.
  • adjective. Thick; viscous.
  • noun. That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Mud, sludge.
  • noun. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
  • noun. A paving stone; a flagstone.
  • noun. A carton containing twenty-four cans of beer.
  • noun. A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
  • noun. A very large wave.
  • noun. A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
  • verb. To make something into a slab.
  • initialism. Slow, Loud And Bangin': (US) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and any other accessories that add to the style of the vehicle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. block consisting of a thick piece of something
  • Word Usage
    "The slab is a horizontal boundary-line and all the vertical relations are related to it."
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    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab  Bab  Crab  Crabbe  Fab  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bit  block  boulder  brick  chunk  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bar  beam  billet  board  board  
    variant
    slabbed  slabbing  
    verb-form
    slabbed  slabbing  slabs