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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slab \Slab\, noun That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slab \Slab\, noun [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, verb (used without an object)]
1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. --Gwilt.
2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
4. (Naut.) The slack part of a sail.
{Slab line} (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slab \Slab\, adjective [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river strand, and E. slop puddle.] Thick; viscous. [Obs.]
Make the gruel thick and slab. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
slab
noun: block consisting of a thick piece of something [also: {slabbing}, {slabbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "slab": bar, beam, billet, board, boarding, chunk, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, disk, driftwood, feuille, film, firewood, flap, foil, fold, glop, gunk, hardwood, hunk, ingot, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, log, lumber, lump, membrane, mire, muck, ooze, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, planking, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rasher, rod, safety glass, scum, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, skin, slat, slice, slime, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush, softwood, splat, splosh, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, strip, table, tablet, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, wedge, wood
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
slab [Apple]
1. n. A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color. 2. vi. To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by calculating 'slab points' for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.
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