Slick′er.
1. (Leather-working.) A tool of steel or glass inserted in a wooden stock and used upon leather in process of manufacture.
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2. (Founding.) Or sleecker. A small tool, generally of brass, the polished surface of which forms a curve of some kind. Slickers are of various shapes; they are used to slick down the curved surfaces of molds after withdrawal of the pattern, or after blacking, as the trowel adapts itself to the flat parts. The short handle of these tools is a stud at the back, and projects at right angles to the face. The different forms are known as half-rounds, egg-slicker, buttonslicker, angle-slicker, etc., etc.
