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.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
Verb
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
(soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
(rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
(transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
