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Definition of Slablike
1. resembling a slab [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slablike
Literary usage of Slablike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1896)
"The papa cliffs have a smooth slablike look, they are often curiously marked—tongued
and grooved, as with a gouge or chisel, channelled and fluted. ..."
2. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He enlisted the anatomist John Hunter to dissect a slablike specimen of a torpedo
a foot and a half long ..."
3. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He enlisted the anatomist John Hunter to dissect a slablike specimen of a torpedo
a foot and a half long, a foot wide, and two inches thick. ..."
4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"He enlisted the anatomist John Hunter to dissect a slablike specimen of a torpedo
a foot and a half long, a foot wide, and two inches thick. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"... admixture during deposition of clayey material, which in the subsequent folding
and bending of the rock has developed a slablike or schistose structure. ..."
6. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"It was quite a spectacle to see hot gases issuing from cracks and crevices between
the slablike rocks; there were also jets of foul-smelling, ..."
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