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slack1 1. a. a patch of water without current b. a slackening of a current 2. Prosody (in sprung rhythm) the unstressed syllable or syllables slack2 small pieces of coal with a high ash content
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A HUNTER who had lassoed a Bear was trying to disengage himself from the rope, but the slip-knot about his wrist would not yield, for the Bear was all the time pulling in the slack with his paws. That would often be ten or eleven o'clock, which was bad enough, in all conscience; but now, in the slack season, they would perhaps not have a thing for their men to do till late in the afternoon. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. |
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