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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. block consisting of a thick piece of something;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. (Zool.) 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slab \Slab\, a. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river strand, and E. slop puddle.] Thick; viscous. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Make the gruel thick and slab. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slab \Slab\, n. That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slab n 1: block consisting of a thick piece of something
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

slab 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.