ˈsleekstone Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 slek(y)-, 5–6 sleke-, 6–7 sleeke-.
[f. sleek a. or v. Cf. slickstone.]
1. A smooth stone used for smoothing and polishing.
| 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 696 Hoc lacinatorium, a slek⁓stone. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 458/2 Slekyston,..linitorium. 1530 Palsgr. 720, I make paper smothe with a sleke stone. 1563 T. Gale Antidot. ii. 64 Stripe them [clouts] wyth a sleeke stone and make them smouthe. 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 220 Shee that wanteth a sleeke-stone to smooth hir linnen, wil take a pebble. 1612 Peacham Graphice 94 Take of the fairest and smothest pastboord you can get, which with a sleeke stone rubbe as smooth, and as euen as you can. 1641 Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 191 A toothlesse Satyr is as improper as a toothed sleekstone. 1688 [see sleeken v.]. 1893–4 Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. 656 Sleek-stone, a polishing stone. |
2. transf. (See quot.)
| a 1610 Healey Theophrastus (1636) 19 A Sleeke-stone or Smooth-boot (as we terme him) is hee, that saluteth a man as farre off as his eye can carry levell. |