slack
adjective
not tight, taut, firm, or tense;
unslacked
-
a word derived from
slack.
Example Sentences
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To make a barrel of soap, it will require about five or six bushels of ashes, with at least four quarts of unslacked stone lime; if slacked, doable the quantity.
From The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
To every seven bushels of ashes, add two gallons of unslacked lime, and throw in the ashes and lime in alternate layers.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher
Take half a bushel of unslacked lime, and slack it with boiling water, covering it, during the process.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher
One pint of coarse salt, and one pint of unslacked lime, to a pailful of water.
From The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
At midnight the fire was raging and roaring with unslacked rage, and at dawn of Thursday its fury was undiminished.
From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Charles Morris
