Slice
- v. t. A removable sliding bottom to galley.
- v. t. A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
- v. t. That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
- v. t. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- v. t. A salver, platter, or tray.
- v. t. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.