slice bar

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noun

a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.

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Origin of slice bar

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby slice bar

slew rate, sley, Slezsko, SLIC, slice, slice bar, slice-of-life, slice of the pie, slicer, slick, slick as a whistle

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How to use slice bar in a sentence

Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.
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I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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You might work on the same groove for five hours nonstop, some three-bar thing over and over.
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The bar also claims that it hosted the first-ever poetry slam 28 years ago.
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A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
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But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
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Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.
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Ogden Hoffman, a distinguished member of the New York bar, died, aged 62.
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The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.
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And when three come, me and Maud was on the Bar Y road where it goes acrosst that crick-bottom.
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British Dictionary definitions for slice bar

slice bar

noun

an iron bar used for raking out furnaces

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