slickstone

English

Etymology

A variant of sleekstone; equivalent to slick +‎ stone.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

slickstone (plural slickstones)

1. Synonym of sleekstone
   • 1729, E[liza] S[mith, “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 between them two grind white 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 […] ‎^[1], 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^[2], →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.

Anagrams

• slice knots