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• Slab — Slab, n. [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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Slab line — Slab Slab, n. [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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• slab — ► NOUN 1) a large, thick, flat piece of solid material, in particular stone, concrete, or heavy food. 2) Brit. a table used for laying a body on in a mortuary. 3) an outer piece of timber sawn from a log. ORIGIN of unknown origin …   English terms dictionary

• slab-heap — /ˈslæb hip/ (say slab heep) –noun 1. NZ, Timber Industry the place where slabs are piled. –phrase 2. be on the slab heap, Colloquial to be set aside as no longer useful or needed …  

• timber — Synonyms and related words: afforestation, arboretum, balk, bare pole, beam, beams, billet, board, boarding, boards, boondocks, bush, bushveld, character, chase, clapboard, climax forest, cloud forest, conifer, cord, cordwood, deal, dendrology,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• slab — Synonyms and related words: bar, beam, billet, board, boarding, chunk, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, disk, driftwood, feuille, film, firewood, flap, foil, fold, glop, gunk, hardwood, hunk, ingot, lamella,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• slab — noun 1》 a large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete. 2》 a flat, heavy table top or counter used for food preparation.     ↘Brit. a table used for laying a body on in a mortuary. 3》 a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc …   English new terms dictionary

• slab —  the outside plank of a piece of timber when sawn into boards. It is a word of general use. N …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

• slab — n. & v. n. 1 a flat broad fairly thick usu. square or rectangular piece of solid material, esp. stone. 2 a large flat piece of cake, chocolate, etc. 3 (of timber) an outer piece sawn from a log. 4 Brit. a mortuary table. v.tr. (slabbed, slabbing) …   Useful english dictionary

• Big Timber Creek — Geobox River name =Big Timber Creek native name = other name = other name1 = image size = image caption =Main stem, looking upstream (2007) etymology =Dutch, Timmer Kill country =USA country1 = state =New Jersey state1 = region = region1 =… …   Wikipedia

• puncheon — puncheon1 /pun cheuhn/, n. 1. a large cask of varying capacity, but usually 80 gallons (304 l). 2. the volume of such a cask, used as a measure. [1425 75; ME ponchoun, punchon < MF ponçon, perh. to be identified with PUNCHEON2] puncheon2 /pun… …   Universalium