slab
noun
[ slab ]
• a large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape.
• "paving slabs"
• a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.
• "a slab of bread and cheese"
Similar:
piece,
block,
hunk,
chunk,
lump,
portion,
cake,
tablet,
brick,
wodge,
• an outer piece of timber sawn from a log.
• "the slabs I trimmed away from the logs became the siding for the cabin walls"
• a pack containing 24 bottles or cans of beer.
slab
verb
• 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"
Origin:
Middle English: of unknown origin.
