slab
/slæb/ noun C2- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- The slack part of a sail.
- A very large wave.
- The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- A poured-concrete foundation for a building. · Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
Plural slabs
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Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
The prize-fighter, a heavily built young man with a stupid, obstinate, slab-sided face, stood awkwardly at the door, looking about him with a puzzled expression.
I had remembered him as a long, slab-sided man with loose limbs and a fine turn of speed, which had carried him round many an opposing back.
It was a large, straggling building, very old in the centre, very new at the wings, with towering Tudor chimneys and a lichen-spotted, high-pitched roof of Horsham slabs.
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