Slate

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FRONT	WORD	BACK	DEFINITION
—	ZAX	—	[n. -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
—	DRUB	S	[v. DRUBBED, DRUBBING°, DRUBS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
—	SLATE	DRSY	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 3] A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
—	SLATY	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Resembling the rock slate.
—	TORCH	Y	[v. -ED, -ING, -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 20] To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
—	ZAXES	—	[n. -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
—	BASALT	S	[n. -S] · a volcanic rock - BASALTIC [a.]
—	QUARRY	—	[v. -RIED, -RYING°, -RIES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
—	SCHIST	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
—	SLATED	—	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 3] covered with slates
—	SLATER	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
—	SLATES	—	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slate
—	SLATEY	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate»
—	RESLATE	DS	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	SLATERS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slater
—	SLATIER	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate»
—	SLATING	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Slates collectively.
—	RESLATED	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	RESLATES	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	SLATIEST	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate»
—	SLATINGS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slating
—	ARGILLITE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
—	GNEISSOID	—	[a.] · © resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss
—	MARBLEIZE	DS	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron
—	PIPESTONE	S	[n. -S] · © a kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians~ into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite
—	RESLATING	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	SLATELIKE	—	[a.] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Resembling slate.
—	SLATINESS	—	[n. -ES] · Derivative of slaty «consisting of or resembling slate»
—	ARGILLITES	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
—	BLACKBOARD	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
—	CHALKBOARD	S	[Wiktionary - Sense 1] A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
—	MARBLEIZED	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron
—	MARBLEIZES	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron
—	NOVACULITE	S	[n. -S] · © a variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate
—	PIPESTONES	—	[n. -S] · © a kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians~ into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite
—	CHALKBOARDS	—	[Wiktionary - Sense 1] A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
—	MARBLEIZING	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron
—	NOVACULITES	—	[n. -S] · © a variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate
—	SLATINESSES	—	[n. -ES] · Derivative of slaty «consisting of or resembling slate»

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