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▪ I. slab, n.1|slæb|
Also 3 sclabbe, 4, 6 slabbe, 7 slabb.
[Of obscure origin: the form does not accord with OF. esclape splinter, shiver (of wood).]
1. a. A flat, broad, and comparatively thick piece or mass of anything solid.
In early use of metal, later also of stone and wood, and finally of any substance capable of having this form. For some technical uses see quots. 1674, 1825, and 1964.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 315 Ase ȝif a man nome ane sclabbe [Harl. MS. slab] of Ire, þat glowynde were a-fuyre. 1354–5Ely Sacr. Rolls (Surtees) II. 164 In M de grossis spykinge, 7s 6d. In viij slabbes empt. 1s 8d. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3313 Grete slabbes of styl & yre to þe walles þo wern y-slente. 1556Recorde Castle Knowl. a viij, The Grounde of Artes who hathe well tredd, And noted well the slyppery slabbes. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 198 One only simple Circle of about twelve Slabbs of Stone. 1674Ray Coll. Words, Preparing of Tin 124 When they have a sufficient quantity of the melted metal, they cast it into oblong, square pieces in a mould made of moore-stone. The lesser pieces they call slabs, the greater blocks. 1771Cumberland West Indian iii. iv, A large cargo of..sugars, rum-puncheons, mahogany slabs. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 452 An arch enclosed on every side with large slabs of stone. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 637 The large piece [of glass] with the knot, still retains the name of table; the smaller piece is technically called a slab. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop l, A little slab of plum cake. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xiv. 141 The walrus..was cut into flat slabs half an inch thick. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. x. 316 Our slabs of gun⁓cotton also emit waves of different densities in different parts. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 839/1 The rubber is glossy, of a bright pink colour and mottled appearance, and occurs in the form either of small balls pressed together or of irregular masses called ‘slabs or ‘loaf’ rubber. 1903Imperial Inst. Techn. Rep. 153 The ‘slabs’ of blackish rubber alone being worth 1s. 11d. per pound. 1964Amer. Speech XXXIX. 274 Slab, a solid piece of rubber used as an ingredient to be melted and mixed with solvents to form rubber cements or to be milled and stripped off.
transf.1882Harper's Mag. July 32/2 From one of our exchanges..we chip off the following slab of scientific knowledge. 1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 171 He was a pampered slab of propriety from his youth up. 1951Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 4) Add. 1172/2 Slab..a long paragraph. 1958Listener 14 Aug. 249/3 The conventional slabs of Brahms, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 623 When I started, I used to dictate slabs without any real preparation.
b. spec. in Metallurgy, such a piece of metal produced from an ingot for subsequent rolling into sheet or plate.
1863Chambers's Encycl. V. s.v. Iron, Puddled balls which have undergone shingling are called slabs or blooms. 1910[see billet n.2 9]. 1931Economist 21 Mar. 608/1 The biggest decline occurring in billets, blooms and slabs. 1968D. R. Cliffe Technical Metallurgy iv. 70 Ingots are broken down into blooms or slabs, as a hot working process, in a cogging mill. 1972Times 18 Sept. 21/6 Production of slab zinc was 35,000 tons.
c. = slab-cake, sense 6 below.
1908J. Kirkland Mod. Baker III. 462 Rice Slab at 6d. per lb... Lemon Madeira at 3d. per lb... Fruit Slab at 3d. per lb. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 580 Cut the Genoese slab into 2-inch squares. 1974W. Foley Child in Forest i. iii. 39 Plain slab was a delicate luxury and this was no plain slab!
d. Archit. A rectangular block of pre-cast, reinforced concrete used in building, esp. in multi-storey constructions.
1927Archit. Rec. Dec. 452/2 A number of experimental houses have been built with ‘textile-block slab construction’... The system consists of concrete block slabs about two or three inches thick of unit sizes which can be handled, laid on end with interlocking grooves, reinforced horizontally and vertically by means of steel rods. 1930Amer. Architect Apr. 32/2 A type of floor and ceiling construction light in weight, quickly erected..is being used... The system consists of two types of slabs, one for floors and another for ceilings, used in conjunction with the ordinary supporting members of steel construction. 1938Archit. Rev. LXXXIII. 223 (caption) One of the two ‘porte-cochères’, in reinforced concrete column and slab construction. 1951Ibid: CX. 92 The café terrace, which disappears beneath its lightly supported slab roof to become a two-level café-bar. 1973D. Francis Slay-Ride x. 122 A modern square-built glass and slab affair a mile out of the city centre.
e. Archit. A high-rise block of impersonal aspect.
[1933L. Mumford in New Yorker 23 Dec. 29/2 What does one find? First, a gigantic slab of a building.] 1952Archit. Rev. CXI. 119/1 As is well known, the term ‘slab’ was coined in the 1930's in connection with publicity on the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 827/1 A point block of government offices is now going up at Wellington..and other high-rise slabs for offices and flats. 1969Burchard & Bush-Brown Archit. of Amer. iv. 353 The early skyscrapers were massive blocks... The new characteristic form became the slab, a term applied to the buildings erected at the Rockefeller Center beginning about 1930. The slab form had appeared briefly in the early history of the skyscraper, notably in the Monadnock Building... It remained for the architects of Rockefeller Center..to modernize the slab, to make it thinner in relation to its height, to simplify it and to treat it with characteristic but underemphasized setbacks.
2. a. A rough outside plank of timber cut from a log or a tree-trunk preparatory to squaring the main portion, or sawing it into planks.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 33 Sawne slab let lie, for stable and stie. Ibid. 42. 1663 Gerbier Counsel 25 [He must watch] the Sawyers at their Pit, that they waste no more than needs in Slabs. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 332 Slab, the out⁓side sappy Planck or Board sawn off from the sides of Timber. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §549 A marine character may be given by shells;..that of a Russian log-house by the outside slabs of trees. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 345/1 The waste of the log, consisting of the ‘slabs’ and edgings.
b. Austr. and N.Z. A coarse, axe-hewn plank, two or three inches in thickness.
1829H. Widowson Present State Van Diemen's Land 86 Logs, or as they are more commonly called, slabs, for erecting barns or small buildings are erected in the same manner. 1845[see 5 a]. 1861L. A. Meredith Over the Straits iv. 130 A bare, rough, barn-like edifice, built of slabs. 1886T. Heney Fortunate Days 71 Built was the house of slabs, long and thick and rudely planed by the hatchet. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 259 It is a low whare of split slabs, adzed over, and sunk into the earth as closely as the inequalities of adze-jointing will permit. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 375/2 Floors [in very early milking sheds] were of wooden slabs, bricks, stones, or even clay. 1957P. White Voss vi. 154 She was standing in front of a house, or hut, of bleached slabs, that melted into the live trunks of the surrounding trees.
3. a. A flat piece of wood or stone used as a table, counter, etc.; a small table hinged to the wall in the passage or hall of a house.
1739R. Bull tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 16 Throw Chairs about; the Slab in pieces beat. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales xi, Four..wine-glasses..were on the slab in the passage. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. xxxiii, The most luxurious slab of a fishmonger's shop.
b. A flat piece of stone, etc., on which colours are ground, or printing-ink distributed.
1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 199 The Slab and Muller, for grinding pigments, figures in a painter's paraphernalia far less frequently now than formerly. 1882Southward Pract. Printing 383 Ink Slabs... Metal being injurious to many kinds of coloured inks, slabs of various kinds are used.
c. A porcelain palette divided into compartments, usually with sloping surfaces, for mixing and holding water-colours.
1888Field & Davidson Gram. Colouring (ed. 4) 158 Mix the colour in three degrees of depth, in as many different compartments of the slab.
d. A flat piece of stone, etc., immediately in front of a fire-place; a stone hearth.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 466/2 The slab is that part of the floor of a room which is immediately before the fireplace, and along the extent of its front. In basement rooms, this slab is supported by a brick wall brought up from the ground; but in upper rooms the slab is supported by a flat half brick arch called a brick trimmer. 1883R. L. Stevenson Treasure Is. xix. 153 Little had been left beside the framework of the house; but in one corner there was a stone slab laid down by way of hearth, and an old rusty iron basket to contain the fire. 1963B. Goodson Pract. Guide to House Repairs iv. 50 The tiled hearth slab is bedded in about ½ in. of mortar on the existing hearth. 1977J. S. Curl Eng. Archit. 154/1 Slab..the hearth of a fireplace.
e. The stone on which a corpse is laid in a mortuary. Also transf. and fig.
1903A. H. Lewis Boss viii. 101 I've seen a bloke take a slab in th' morgue for less. It was Benny the Bite; he gets a knife between his slats. 1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 417 Slab... Undertaker's table. 1930H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune Explains 111 On a slab in the mortuary the woman's body lay and the divisional surgeon turned from it to nod at Reggie. 1932E. Wallace When Gangs came to London ii. 26 My best friend is a forty-five..and the day he puts you on the slab I'm going to put diamonds all round his muzzle. 1977‘C. Aird’ Parting Breath x. 127 Pathologists had hobbyhorses, too, and obesity was..Dr. Dabbe's. He was always having a go at Sergeant Gelven..about his weight. ‘See you soon,’ was his favourite form of greeting to the portly detective, ‘on my slab.’
4. attrib.
a. In sense ‘constructed of slabs’, as slab-cottage, slab-fence, slab whare [whare], etc.; (sense 2 b) slab-and-bark house, hut; slab-and-shingle hut.
1826Longfellow in Life (1891) I. vii. 86 No slab-fences; no well-poles. 1846Stokes Disc. in Australia I. ix. 266 The house..was what is called a Slab Hut, formed of rough boards and thatched with grass. 1862R. Henning Let. 18 Oct. (1966) 111 It is not much to move a slab house; all the woodwork takes down and puts up again. 1869Townend Rem. Australia 155 We passed through Studley Park, with here and there a slab house or tent. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 97 A very small slab cottage. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career i. 5 Our comfortable, wide-veranda'ed..slab house..was ever full to overflowing. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 293 He..who lives in a slab whare, and on a fare which his dainty collie sniffs at and rejects. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 12 According to the formula neatly printed in official journals, the building of a slab hut is absurdly easy. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Jan. 20 A good three-roomed slab-and-shingle hut that had been vacated by a white family. 1945Salt 12 Feb. 4/1 His earliest years were spent in a slab-and-bark hut. 1949F. Sargeson I saw it in my Dream 100 A slab whare in a narrow valley. 1959J. Wright Generations of Men 53 A slab-and-bark house in lonely fever-ridden country. 1969F. Sargeson Joy of Worm i. 7 It then became pleasant to look forward to hot food, the shelter of the farmer's slab hut, and talk with the man himself.
b. In sense ‘having the form of a slab or slabs’, as slab-board, slab-deal, slab-slate, etc.; (sense 2 a) slabwood.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 133 The slab-slices..may of course vary, but all are free of the smallest portion of waste. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2197/2 The waney portions of the slab-boards are removed by the Edger. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 412 Slab-wood answering all purposes. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §157. 54 When the slab deals or outsides have been cut away. 1889Seddon Builder's Work (ed. 2) 231 The work upon slab slates, or slate-mason's work. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Oct. 10/1 (Advt.), Cordwood, Slabwood, Blockwood, Dry Kindling. 1962M. E. Murie Two in Far North i. ii. 20 Off at one side, a lean-to bedroom built of slab wood. 1976Newmarket Jrnl. 16 Dec. (Advt.), Hardwood and softwood, slabwood and off-cuts for sale.
c. Misc., as slab-car, slab-pit, slab-saw.
1879Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Dec., Getting the slabs and clippings into the slab-pit. Ibid., The refuse will be run to the slab-saw and cut up, and from there it will fall into the slab-car.
5. Comb.
a. With pa. pples., as slab-bridged (fig.), slab-built, slab-roofed, slab-walled. Cf. slab-sided a.
1845Voy. of Port Philip 52 His slab-built hut, with roof of bark. 1859Atlantic Monthly Nov. 642/1 Anyone who has driven over a mountain-stream by one of those bridges made of slabs will feel the force of a term we once heard applied to a parson so shaky in character that no dependence could be placed on him,—‘A slab-bridged kind o' feller!’ 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 119, I suspect that he confounded those mysterious slab-built uags with the real hour-glass tower. 1866Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. Introd. Poet. Wks. (1884) 280 The picturesque force of the epithet slab-bridged applied to a fellow of shaky character. 1896B. M. Croker Village Tales 99 The little slab-roofed dwelling. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. viii. 213 The slab-walled, earthen-floored hut.
b. With agent-nouns, as slab-burner, slab-grinder.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2197/2 Slab-grinder, a machine used for grinding up the refuse slabs in a..saw mill. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 345/2 The ‘slab-burner’ or ‘hell’, a large circular brick furnace..erected conveniently near the saw-mill.
c. slab-like adj.
1899W. James Talks to Teachers 214 The even forehead, the slab-like cheek, the codfish eye, may be less interesting for the moment. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms iv. 122 On the high valley slopes above Glen Rosa great slab-like outcrops of granite, tilted at between 30° and 60°, are developed where glacial erosion and frost weathering have exposed dilatation joints.
6. Special combinations: slab avalanche, an avalanche in which a sheet of snow breaks cleanly away along a fracture line; slab bacon, unsliced bacon; slab-cake, (a) cake baked in a large rectangular tin (cf. sense 1 c above).
[1920A. Lunn in G. W. Young Mountain Craft ix. 431 The wind-slab is the most treacherous of all avalanches. 1936G. Seligman Snow Structure & Ski Fields vii. 160 If this ‘slab’ of snow has formed on a steep slope it will shatter into countless blocks of hardened snow, and these, sliding downhill, will precipitate the most insidious of all avalanches—the wind-slab avalanche.] 1953Avalanche Handbk. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Forest Service) iv. 34 (caption) Major *slab-avalanche. Depth of fracture: 10 feet. 1978C. Fraser Avalanches & Snow Safety v. 79 Criterion 1 is the form of break which started the avalanche and this leads to the broad division of all avalanches into two types: ‘loose-snow avalanches’..and ‘slab avalanches’.
1932Even. Sun (Baltimore) 7 Nov. 12/7 (Advt.), Boneless *Slab Bacon lb 13½c. 1975L. & S. Lobel All about Meat vii. 115 Take the trouble to hunt for unsliced slab bacon.
1902J. T. Law Grocer's Man. (ed. 2) 854/1 *Slab Cakes, or Cut Cakes (sold by the pound).—The introduction of these ready-made cakes, as an extension of the birthday, wedding, and Christmas cake system, appears to be displacing or supplanting much of the old-fashioned retail business in currants, raisins,..spices, etc. 1935Economist 22 June 1439/1 Scribbans and Company, the well known makers of slab cake, find their activities in fields where steady progress..is the natural order of things. 1974W. Foley Child in Forest i. v. 57 A slice of bright slab cake.
Senses 1 c–e in Dict. become 1 d–f. Add: [1.] c. Mountaineering. A large, smooth body of rock lying at a (usu. sharp) angle to the horizontal.
1904J. N. Collie in Alpine Jrnl. XXII. 10 [The ridge] was impossible, being made up entirely of bare slabs and perpendicular pitches. 1955S. Styles Introd. Mountaineering xi. 127 The term thank-god hold, which has become part of British climbing jargon, originated on the third ascent of the slab on Route II, Lliwedd East Buttress. 1965A. Blackshaw Mountaineering vi. 173 As well as slabs providing Moderate or Difficult climbing (e.g. Idwal Slabs) there are some slabs providing very hard and serious climbing. 1986Climber May 19/2 Climb directly up iced slabs to below corner.
g. transf. in Statistics. Any of the bands in a system of fiscal or other stratification. Freq. attrib.
1963Times 22 Feb. 5/3 When estate duty is reduced it should be done by graduating the rates on a ‘slab’ basis as in surtax. By this method the top rate of duty applicable to an estate would be levied only on its top ‘slab’ and the lower rates..on the lower ‘slabs’. 1988Hindu 25 Feb. 7/1 The increase per ticket in second class mail express is proposed to be Rs. 2 at the lowest slab, progressively rising to a maximum, for distances beyond 750 km of Rs. 15.00.
▪ II. slab, n.2|slæb|
Also 7 slabb(e.
[app. of Scand. origin: cf. older Da. slab mud, mire, Icel., Norw., and Sw. slabb wet filth, slops, etc. Ir. and Sc. Gael. slab, slaib mire, mud, dirt, are prob. from English.]
1. A muddy place; a puddle. Now dial.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 532 A fairer towne, than a man would looke to finde in this tract among such slabbes and water-plashes. 1756Phil. Trans. XLIX. 392 The bottom of the harbour, which is all a slab, was much altered, the mud being washed from some places, and deposited in others. 1847Halliw., Slab, a puddle, a wet place. North. 1895Rye E. Anglian Gloss., Slab, a puddle or collection of surface drainage.
2. Wet and slimy matter; ooze, sludge.
1622–3Sarum Churchw. Accs. (Swayne, 1896) 175 A Barrowe full of Lyme Slabb, 8d. 1671St. Foine Improved 4 The Slabb and Mud which remains after the Water is drawn off the Ground. 1867Emerson May-Day Wks. (Bohn) III. 408 And upward pries and perforates Through the cold slab a thousand gates.
fig.1868Browning Ring & Bk. iv. 733 Throw in abuse..: shake all slab At Rome, Arezzo for the world to nose.
▪ III. slab, n.3 Naut.|slæb|
[Cf. slab-line.]
(See quots.)
1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 12 Slab, any slack part of a sail hanging down. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604/2 Slab of a sail, the slack part which hangs down after the leech-lines are hauled up.
▪ IV. slab, n.4 Angling (orig. N.Z.).|slæb|
[Of uncertain origin; cf. slab a.2 and slat n.4]
A weak or spent game fish, esp. a diseased trout; a kelt.
1952A. G. Mitchell in Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. (Austral. ed.) Suppl., Slab, a poorly conditioned trout. 1968Times 22 Oct. 3/2 Brown trout fishermen in the South Island of New Zealand are familiar with individual fish which show very little fight once they have been hooked. It now turns out that these fish, known locally as slabs, are suffering from a heart disease. 1986Coarse Fishing June 12/3 Despite a couple of big slabs priming right in front of us we could not get a touch.
▪ V. slab, a.1|slæb|
[Related to slab n.2 Cf. older Da. slab slippery.]
Semi-solid; viscid.
In modern use entirely as an echo of Shakespeare, frequently fig., and usually accompanied by thick.
(a)1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 32 Make the Grewell thicke, and slab. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow caldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. 1870Friswell Mod. Men of Lett. vii. 126 Various adventures and thoughts, poured out thick and slab. 1894Raleigh Eng. Novel viii. (1903) 234 His [‘Monk’ Lewis's] taste was rather for horrors, thick and slab.
(b)1841Sealy Porcelain Tower 154 Where the air is slab and hath got no sky. 1849Ainsworth Lanc. Witches i. vi, The slab, salt waves of the Dead Sea. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. xvii. 351 The embroilment would seem to be now slab enough.
Hence ˈslably adv.; ˈslabness.
1881Academy 7 May 334 All these materials are mixed thickly and slably by the aid of a very clumsy style. 1892Sat. Rev. 13 Aug. 206/2 If these ingredients are not thick and slab enough for readers, they must, indeed, be fanatics of thickness and slabness.
▪ VI. † slab, a.2 (or adv.) Obs.—1
(See quot.)
c1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 13 With Scotch Salt, he cured the whole Lading of Cod, having none that were weak or slab salted.
▪ VII. † slab, v.1 Obs.—1
[Of doubtful origin: connexion with slab n.2 is perhaps possible.]
intr. ? To wallow.
c1315Shoreham vii. 442 Hou yst þet hy ine helle slabbeþ, And þare-tou none grace nabbeþ To repente?
▪ VIII. slab, v.2 Now dial. or Obs.
[prob. of Du. or LG. origin: cf. MDu., Du., and LG. slabben (G. schlabben, schlappen), Fris. slabje, Norw. and Sw. slabba, in the same sense.]
To eat or drink in a hasty or untidy manner: a. trans. with up. b. intr. with at.
1553Respublica 853 Suche hongrye doggs will slabbe vp sluttishe puddinges. 1729in Macfarlane Genealog. Collect. (S.H.S.) I. 111 The Laird of Grant..was for Diversion's Sake brought to see the Orphans slabbing at their Trough. 1787W. Taylor Scots Poems 173 Lang may ye blow the reamin ale,..While I slab up my barefit kail.
▪ IX. slab, v.3|slæb|
[f. slab n.1]
1. a. trans. To dress (timber) by removing the outside slabs; to clear of bark-wood.
1703[R. Neve] City & C. Purchaser 237 They will cut none smaller, neither will they Slab any, unless they are paid for it by Measure. 1811Self Instructor 137 For cutting a piece of timber..and slabbing it, i.e. cutting off the outside pieces. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs 234 A paling Board..being slabbed or feather-edged and dubbed on the sappy side. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2028 Sapping-machine, a circular saw for slabbing balks.
b. U.S. With off: ‘To throw aside as useless, like the outside piece of a log’ (Bartlett, 1859).
1835Col. Crockett Tour 212 You must take notice that I am slabb'd off from the election.
2. To convert into a slab or slabs.
1868B. J. Lossing The Hudson 70 There are also several mills for slabbing the fine black marble of that locality. 1893Advance (Chicago) 11 May, A section of one thirty feet in diameter is to be slabbed, and the slabs..are to be set up to form a house.
3. a. To lay or pave with slabs.
1832Lincoln Herald 7 Feb. 4/4 The expense of slabbing the sides of the Market-place. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. ii. 46 The parapet is broad, and slabbed with red Verona marble. 1891Baring-Gould In Troubadour Land xvi. 230 The roof is slabbed with stone, so as to form a terrace.
b. To support (the sides of a shaft) with slabs. In quot. absol.
1871J. J. Simpson Recit. 24 So dig away, drive away, slab and bail.
4. To stick or plaster in slabs.
1886Tupper My Life 21 They had slabbed on the underside of the tables masses of bread and butter supposed to have been eaten-out.
5. trans. Of a path, climber, etc.: to traverse (the side of a slope) horizontally or at a gentle angle. U.S.
1889Farmer Americanisms 492/2 To slab, to make roads round the sides of mountains. 1892Outing Jan. 268/1 So we started blindly up the bank and into the forest, continuing for an hour and a half to ‘slab’ the mountain, as the backwoodsmen say. 1907Guide Paths & Camps White Mountains (Appalachian Mountain Club) 62 The path now slabs the east side. 1916Ibid. (ed. 2) 265 The path..rises by easy zigzags slabbing the S.W. flank of Eagle Cliff. 1963Appalachian Trailway News Sept. 43/2 We zigzagged and slabbed mountains, finally coming..down a beautiful grassy glade where stood Big Stamp Shelter. 1968Ibid. Sept. 43/2 Route slabs northwestern slope of ridge. |