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Term Definition
Skirting. Baseboard at a stairway.  
Skive Edge. In gypsumboard finishing, the outside edges of the paper joint tape that have been sanded to improve adhesion and rce waviness.  
Skiving. To pare or slice off in thin layers.  
Skylight. A transparent opening in a roof for the admittance of light.  
Skyscrape. To design or build a very tall building.  
Skyscraper. A very tall building; compare with Groundscraper.  
Slab Bolster. Continuous, individual support used to hold reinforcing bars in the proper position.  
Slab Form. 1. The formwork used for the pouring or placing of a concrete slab. 2. A type of manufactured metal decking which is made expressly to receive a final layer of poured concrete.  
Slab Mesh. Welded-wire fabric in sheets or rolls used to reinforce concrete slabs.  
Slab, Precast. A flat, horizontal, molded layer of reinforced concrete, cast and cured in other than its final position.  
Slab. 1. A cast concrete floor. 2. Flat section of floor or roof either on the ground or supported by beams or walls.  
Slack. 1.Extra time in a CPM schle; also called Float. 2. Hanging loose without tension. 3. Insufficiently diligent; negligent. 4. Slow in business activity.  
Slag Inclusion. Non-metallic solid material entrapped in weld metal or between weld metal and base metal.  
Slag. A by-product smelting iron, lead, or copper ore; used for construction aggregate; cinder.  
Slake. A term denoting the process whereby lime putty is produced from quicklime; slaking consists of adding quicklime to water and allowing the resulting slurry to age for at least two weeks.  
Slaked Lime. Hydrated lime.  
Slander of Title. Intentionally and wrongfully placing a cloud on title to real estate.  
Slash-Grained Wood. Flat-grained lumber.  
Slate Flour. Filler used to considerable extent in asphalt mixtures and in roofing mastic.  
Slate. A form of geologically hardened clay, easily split into thin sheets.  
Sledge. see Sledgehammer.  
Sledgehammer. A large heavy hammer that is wielded with both hands; also called a Sledge.  
Sleeper. 1. A timber laid on the ground to support a floor joist. 2. A wood strip, usually for a wood floor system, which is fastened directly to a concrete floor thus facilitating the installation of the finished floor.  
Sleeping Accommodations. Rooms in which people sleep.  
Slenderness Ratio. The ratio of the unbraced length of a column to the radius of gyration.  
Sliced Veneer. Wood veneer that is sliced off a log, bolt, or flitch with a knife.  
Slicker. A tool often used by the plasterer in place of the darby. It is made of a thin board beveled on both sides, about 4 foot long and 6 to 8 inches wide held by the thicker edge.  
Slide, Water. see Water Slide.  
Slide. 1. To move in continuous contact with a smooth surface, 2. A fresh tile wall that has buckled or sagged; this condition may be caused by excessive mortar, insufficient lime in the mortar, or excessive moisture in the scratch coat; a slide also may result if the surface is slick or the mortar is too soft. 3. A small landslide.  
Sliding Glass Door. An exterior glass door mounted above and below on tracks for ease in movement.  

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