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slak — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cinder noun A small piece of partly burnt coal, wood, or other material left after combustion.
  • slag noun Waste material left over after smelting ore.
  • slug noun A soft-bodied, shell-less land mollusk related to the snail.
  • snail noun A small, slow-moving mollusc with a spiral shell that it carries on its back.

Senses

slak is used for these senses in English:

  • cinder Slag from a metal furnace.
  • slag Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
  • slug Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18th c.]
  • snail Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

slag — full definition

  1. noun Waste material left over after smelting ore.
  2. verb (British, informal) To criticise or mock someone harshly.

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