Slice.
1. (Furnace.) a. The instrument used for clearing the air-spaces between the bars of the furnace when they become choked with clinkers.
b. A peel or fire-shovel.
2. (Nautical.) a. A bar with a chisel or spearshaped end, used for stripping off sheathing or planking.
b. A spade-shaped tool used in flensing whales.
c. A wedge driven between the false keel and the bilgeway, to raise a vessel before launching.
3. (Printing.) a. A kind of paddle (A, Fig. 5184) used for spreading ink upon the inking-table. See ink-slice.
Printer's slices, sticks, etc. |
b. See galley-slice.
B is a shooting stick.
C, sheep's-foot.
D, slice-galley.
E, composingstick.
F, stereotypeblock.
See the above under their respective heads.
4. (Household.) A broad, thin knife for serving fish at table.
5. (Pharmacy.) A round-ended, pliable knife for spreading plasters. A spatula.