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slab

  • noun
  • /slæb/

Stone Slab A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

Other meanings

  1. Paving Slab A paving stone; a flagstone.

  2. Wood Sawing An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

A kind of

  • block

Kinds of slab

  • tablet
  • tile

Word history

From Old Norse "sleipr".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “slab” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.