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slab

Syllabification: (slab)
Pronunciation: /slab/
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Definition of slab

noun

  • a large, thick, flat piece of stone, concrete, or wood, typically rectangular:paving slabs she settled on a slab of rock
  • a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.:a slab of bread and cheese
  • Climbing a large, smooth, steep body of rock.
  • an outer piece of timber sawn from a log.
  • a table used for laying a body on in a morgue.

verb (slabs, slabbing, slabbed)

[with object] (often as noun slabbing)
  • remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks.

Derivatives

slabbed

adjective

slabby

adjective

Origin:

Middle English: of unknown origin

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