LekhoriLekhoriOf a liquid: thick; viscous.
The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.
Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
When waggiſh Boys the ſtunted Beeſom ply, / To rid the ſlabby Pavement; paſs not by / E’er thou haſt held their Hands; ſome heedleſs Flirt / Will over-ſpread thy Calves with ſpatt’ring Dirt.
Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.
A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.
The employer shall supply the sawyer and tailer-out at breast bench, workers operating goose-saws, and slabbies with suitable leather aprons for use while so employed. When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists.
From slab (“mud, sludge”) + -y.
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