slab

noun

• 1a large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape:paving slabs she settled on a slab of rock
• a flat, heavy table top or counter, used during the preparation or display of food:a fishmonger’s slab
• British a table used for laying a body on in a mortuary: he averted his eyes from the corpse on the slab
• Climbing a large, smooth body of rock lying at a sharp angle to the horizontal: he handled the rope competently and set out up the centre of the slab

• 2a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.:a slab of bread and cheese

• 3an outer piece of timber sawn from a log: the slabs I trimmed away from the logs became the siding for the cabin walls

• 4Australian/NZ informal a pack containing 24 bottles or cans of beer.

verb (slabs, slabbing, slabbed)

• remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks: a well-centred log is more secure for improved slabbing performance