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slack
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
thread.
Quotations
1852
I guess if you won't lend me the gown, you will let me have some black slack to quilt a stuff petticoat, a quarter of a pound of tea and some sugar; and I will bring them back as soon as I can.
1863
A store where everything was sold, from a nail or a spool of 'slack' to a keg of spirits or an almanac. . . .