SLAB

slab. Slab, n. a table of stone, the outside cut of a log made by sawing

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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. 1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. Gwilt.
2. 2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
3. 3. (Zoöl.) The wryneck.
4. 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.