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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslɪkˌstəʊn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈslɪkˌstoʊn/

名詞

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 […] ‎, 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, →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.

アナグラム

• slice knots