subs. (old).—1. A milestone (BEE).
2. (provincial).—A bricklayer’s boy (HALLIWELL).
3. (common).—A thick slice of bread and butter: cf. DOORSTEP.
4. (Durham School).—In pl. = a flat cake.
TO SLAB OFF, verb. phr. (American).—To reject [BARTLETT].
1835. CROCKETT, Tour to the North and Down East, 212. You must take notice that I am SLABB’D OFF from the election, and am nothing but a ‘voter.’
