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A slab or large tile of stone, marble, baked clay, or the like; specifically, in decorative art, a tile of which the surface is incised or otherwise ornamented, such as the medieval sepulchral slabs set in the pavement and walls of churches.
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Plural [capitalized] The name originally given by the French employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, and still current, to certain localities in the valley of the Mississippi and west as far as the Columbia, where the rivers flow with a rapid fall over broad, flat rock-surfaces.
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The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)