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slickstone

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Etymology

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A variant of sleekstone; equivalent to slick +‎ stone.

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Noun

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slickstone (plural slickstones)

  1. Synonym of sleekstone
    • 1729, E[liza] S[mith], “Medicines and Salves. [Another for the Same [Piles]]”, in The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion: [], 3rd edition, London: [] J. Pemberton, [], →OCLC, page 286:
      Take a Sheet of Lead, and have a piece of Lead made like a Slickſtone; then betvveen them tvvo grind vvhite Lead and Sallet-Oil till 'tis very fine, put it in a Gallipot for uſe.
    • 1881, Charles Conrad Abbott, Primitive Industry: Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone and Clay [] [1], Salem, Mass.: George A. Bates, page 144:
      Fig. 133 represents a white marble slickstone or smoothing implement of altogether different pattern from any previously described []
    • 2020 January 31, Penelope Walton Rogers, “Textile networks in Viking-age towns of Britain and Ireland”, in Stephen P. Ashby, Søren Sindbæk, editors, Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns[2], →ISBN, page 101:
      Rounded stone and glass objects with fine radiating scratches on one surface represent the slickstones that were used in garment-making and laundry, to smooth the cloth and to press seams and pleats.

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