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Sline

' [slain.] A coal-mining term : a joint in stratified rocks ; a clean, sharply-defined surface or divisional plane perpendicular to the stratification.

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' [slain.] A coal-mining term : a joint in stratified rocks ; a clean, sharply-defined surface or divisional plane perpendicular to the stratification. Nhb.', w.Yks. (J.T.),Lei.'

Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)

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