∙ A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. Britain
∙ A broad, thin piece of plaster.
∙ A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
∙ A salver, platter, or tray.
∙ A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
∙ One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
∙ A removable sliding bottom to a galley. printing
∙ A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw golf
∙ A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. Australia, New Zealand
∙ A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. medicine
∙ A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) falconry
Verb
∙ To cut into slices.
∙ To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
∙ To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). golf
∙ To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce. tennis
∙ To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards. badminton
∙ To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high. soccer
∙ To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke. rowing
∙ To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. transitive