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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.

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