Found 1 items, similar to Slab line.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Slab line 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. [1913 Webster] 2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo["o]l.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Naut.) The slack part of a sail. [1913 Webster] Slab line (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. --Totten. [1913 Webster]