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   Slab

   /slab/

   

   noun

   • 1. a large, thick, flat piece of stone, concrete, or wood, typically rectangular: "paving slabs"
   • ▪ a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.: "a slab of bread and cheese"
   • ▪ 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

   • 1. remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks: "he slabbed the log on the two other remaining sides to make a rectangular timber"

   Word Origin Middle English: of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. slabby adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

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