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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  An  outside  piece  taken  from  a  log  or  timber  in  sawing  it 
  into  boards,  planks,  etc 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  The  wryneck.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  4.  (Naut.)  The  slack  part  of  a  sail. 
 
  {Slab  line}  (Naut.),  a  line  or  small  rope  by  which  seamen 
  haul  up  the  foot  of  the  mainsail  or  foresail.  --Totten. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slab  \Slab\,  a.  [Cf.  Gael.  &  Ir  slaib  mud,  mire  left  on  a  river 
  strand,  and  E.  slop  puddle.] 
  Thick;  viscous.  [Obs.] 
 
  Make  the  gruel  thick  and  slab.  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slab  \Slab\,  n. 
  That  which  is  slimy  or  viscous;  moist  earth;  mud;  also  a 
  puddle.  [Obs.]  --Evelyn. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  slab 
  n  :  thick  piece  of  something 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  slab  [Apple]  1.  n.  A  continuous  horizontal  line  of  pixels,  all 
  with  the  same  color.  2.  vi  To  paint  a  slab  on  an  output  device.  Apple's 
  QuickDraw,  like  most  other  professional-level  graphics  systems,  renders 
  polygons  and  lines  not  with  Bresenham's  algorithm,  but  by  calculating 
  `slab  points'  for  each  scan  line  on  the  screen  in  succession,  and  then 
  slabbing  in  the  actual  image  pixels. 
 
 




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