Definition of "slice"
- noun
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
Amount.
A piece of pizza.
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
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.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
A removable sliding bottom to galley.
A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right.
A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical.
- verb
To cut into slices.
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
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