sleck-trough Now dial.
[sleck v.1]
= slack-trough.
| 1716 T. Ward Eng. Ref. 38 One who Anointed Had never been, unless his Dad Had in the Sleck-trough wash'd the Lad. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Sleck-trough, the trough containing the water in which smiths cool their iron and temper steel. 1863 in Robson Bards of Tyne 413 A' wesh thersels clean i' the sleck troughs. |