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   slab

   /slab/

   noun

   • 1. a large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape: "paving slabs"
   • ▪ a flat, heavy table top or counter, used during the preparation or display of food: "a fishmonger's slab"
   • ▪ a table used for laying a body on in a mortuary: British "he averted his eyes from the corpse on the slab"
   • ▪ 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"
   • 2. a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.: "a slab of bread and cheese"
   • 3. an outer piece of timber sawn from a log: "the slabs I trimmed away from the logs became the siding for the cabin walls"
   • 4. a pack containing 24 bottles or cans of beer. informal Australian, New Zealand

   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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