slabby

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a liquid: thick; viscous.

   “The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.”

2. sıfat Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.

   “When waggiſh Boys the ſtunted Beeſom ply, / To rid the ſlabby Pavement; paſs not by / E’er thou haſt held their Hands; ſome heedleſs Flirt / Will over-ſpread thy Calves with ſpatt’ring Dirt.”

3. sıfat Rainy, wet. (of weather)

   “[…] I am only to caution our labourer as to the present work, that he do not stir the ground in over-wet and slabby weather […]”

4. sıfat Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.

   “Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.”

5. sıfat Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
6. isim A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.

   “The employer shall supply the sawyer and tailer-out at breast bench, workers operating goose-saws, and slabbies with suitable leather aprons for use while so employed. When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists.”