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noun

Slice n.

1.

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

2.

That which is thin and broad, like a slice. Specifically:

(a)

A broad, thin piece of plaster.

(b)

A salver, platter, or tray. (Obs.)

(c)

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

(d)

A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. (Cant)

(e)

(Shipbuilding) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

(f)

(Printing) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

Slice bar, a kind of fire iron resembling a poker, with a broad, flat end, for stirring a fire of coals, and clearing it and the grate bars from clinkers, ashes, etc.; a slice.

verb

Slice v. t. (past & past part. sliced; pres. part. slicing)

1.

To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

2.

To cut into parts; to divide.

3.

To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

4.

(Golf) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.

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Etymology of 'Slice'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slice" Quotes from Famous Books

... years' experience, about once in two or three months—because there is nothing else at hand—I find myself eating a small bit of meat. This usually happens when I am on a lecture tour. But if I eat only a small slice of bacon at the evening meal I dream bad dreams and the next morning feel drowsy, heavy, and sluggish. Animal foods as well as eggs and commercial sugar poison all those born of nervous parents. I have proved the truth of this by ...

— How to Eat - A Cure for "Nerves" • Thomas Clark Hinkle

... It was thought a fine match for Polly Smith, when she married the great Mr. Newcome; but I doubt whether my old woman at home hasn't had the best of it, after all; and if ever you come Bernard Street way on a Sunday, about six o'clock, and would like a slice of beef and a glass of port, I hope you'll come ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... so sad and serious, that all felt that it would not do to indulge in joyous chatter, and the little girls especially were awed; though through all there was a tender kindness in his voice and look, whenever he did but offer a slice of bread to his little guest, such as made her feel what was home and what was love—"like a shower of rain after a parched desert" as she said to herself; and she squeezed Sylvia's hand under the ...

— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge

... hill; for his friend's house lay at the lower end, or tail, of Chateau Landon, while the inn was up at the head, under the great church spire. With this clue to go upon he stumbled and groped forward, now breathing more freely in open places where there was a good slice of sky overhead, now feeling along the wall in stifling closes. It is an eerie and mysterious position to be thus submerged in opaque blackness in an almost unknown town. The silence is terrifying in its possibilities. The touch of cold window-bars ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... too—will have to stay here and stand guard on the Major and this fresh guy, Pringle," said the sheriff thoughtfully. "He'll get his slice ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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