Slice
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(2): ( v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
(3): ( v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
(4): ( v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
(5): ( v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
(6): ( v. t.) 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.
(7): ( v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
(8): ( v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
(9): ( v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
(10): ( v. t.) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
(11): ( v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
(12): ( v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin broad piece. 2. To cut into parts. 3. To cut to divide.
Slice, n. A thin broad piece cut off as a slice of bacon a slice of cheese a slice of bread.
2. A broad piece' as a slice of plaster. 3. A peel a spatula an instrument consisting of a broad plate with a handle, used by apothecaries for spreading plaster, & 100 4. In ship-building, a tapering piece of plank to be driven between the timbers before planking.
