Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make into a slab. · To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. · A paving stone; a flagstone. · A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer). · An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.
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