slab-sided, a. Orig. U.S.
(ˈslæbsaɪdɪd)
[f. slab n.1]
Having sides like slabs; flat-sided; long and lank. Also in Archit.: see slab n.1 1 d.
| 1817 J. K. Paudling Lett. from South II. 122 He was what is usually called a tall slab-sided Virginian. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 145 Great, long, slab⁓sided, simple gawkeys. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxv. 79 Her captain was a slab-sided, shamble-legged Quaker. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl v. 94 The silky, thin-haired, narrow-chested, and slab-sided animal so fashionable nowadays. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-Bk. Sherlock Holmes iii. 89 The prize-fighter, a heavily built young man with a stupid, obstinate, slab-sided face. 1933 Flight 23 Mar. 268 The fuselage is not quite ‘slab-sided’. 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin v. 32 The large slab-sided department store. 1981 E. Corlett Revolution in Merchant Shipping 35/1 High slab-sided deckhouses. |