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Slack Cooperage. Packages or cases consisting of two round 

 heads and a body composed of one or more staves held to- 

 gether with hoops, which are used as containers for non- 

 liquid products. 



Slash. -An American term for the debris left after logging, wind, 

 or fire. 



Slash and Slashing. Implies " cut at random or cut into long 

 strips or slits." It has come to mean parting one annual 

 ring, zone or layer of wood from another, a process finely 

 illustrated by the " rotary veneer " or " peeling machines " ; 

 hence the figure shown on the face of such veneers is called 

 " slash grain," and should not be confused with the " silver 

 grain " of oak obtained by radial sawing. See " Peel and 

 Peeling," " Slash Grain or Slash Figure," "Sliveand Sliver- 

 ing." 



Slash Grain or Slash Figure. Terms in the veneer trade not yet 

 fixed as dictionary words. To be correct, they should not 

 be applied to figure such as the " silver grain " or " mirror 

 figure " of oak obtained by " quarter " or " radial sawing," 

 but be confined to figure yielded by rotary knife cutting, or 

 peeling veneers off the round or tangential face of the tree, 

 the figure being the play of the knife in the hard and soft 

 light and dark parts, ergo the spring and summer wood (which 

 see}. 



Slashers. An American name for " trimmers " or edging saws. 

 The term is usually employed to describe a number of 

 saws on one spindle which cannot be quickly placed in and 

 out of action independently, as is the case with the trimming 

 machine. 



Slat and Slats. (1 ) A narrow piece or pieces of timber, whose 

 meaning is well defined in " bed slats ' strong narrow 

 spaced boards notched into and reaching from side to side 

 of a bed- frame, to form a floor or stage for the mattress and 

 the bed proper. " Slat " appears as a close relation to 

 " lath." (2) In America a term for a sawed piece of wood 

 1\ x 2J x \ in., used in pencil manufacture. 



Slate or Slates. As roof covering, an argillaceous stone, highly 

 crystallized, but not cleaving on the line of its bedding as 

 originally ; a sedimentary deposit ; it varies in colour from a 

 bluish-grey to a greenish-black. See "Welsh Slates," and 

 " Slate-slabs," produced by splitting in thicknesses like the 

 " school-boy's slate," to " 3-in. slabs," and from a few inches 

 in length to about 7 ft. 



Slate-slab or Slabs. An important branch of the Welsh slate- 

 trade, being slabs from J in. to 3 in. in thickness, wrought 



