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Slice   /slaɪs/   Listen
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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"Slice" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, but I will slice your liver, Captain Hardy, if you do not make good your words! Where is this treasure you speak of?" "It is not a treasure of gold, but it is a fair maid, which ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... better have a slice of ham or an egg, or something with your tea? You can't travel on a mouthful of ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... Babbitt. Everything about him was dim except his stomach, and that was a bright scarlet disturbance. "Had too much grub; oughtn't to eat this stuff," he groaned—while he went on eating, while he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream. He felt as though he had been stuffed with clay; his body was bursting, his throat was bursting, his brain was hot mud; and only with agony did he continue to ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... need not here take a small slice from the landscape, and fence it in from the obtrusions of an uncongenial neighbor, and there cut down his fancies to miniature improvements which a chicken could run over in ten minutes. He may have water and wood and land enough, to dread no incursions on his prospect from some chance ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... pretty easily," said Dean angrily. "You put me in the position where, if I don't lend it to you, I'm a sucker—oh, yes, you do. And let me tell you it's no easy thing for me to get hold of three hundred dollars. My income isn't so big but that a slice like that won't play the deuce ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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