To employ by paying a retainer.
To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year.
To keep in one's pay or service.
To keep in possession or use.
To hold secure.
Having the properties of a slice knot.
To cut into slices.
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
A contiguous portion of an array.
A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
That which is thin and broad.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
A thin, broad piece cut off.
A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
An amount of anything.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.