Slickens vs Slackens - What's the difference?
slickens | slackens |
(slicken)
(US, dialect) The pulverised matter from a quartz mill.
(US, dialect, mining) The lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
(Webster 1913)
(slacken)
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1908 ,
To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
* 1986 , Mari Sandoz, The Horsecatcher?
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
As verbs the difference between slickens and slackens
is that slickens is (slicken) while slackens is (slacken).As a noun slickens
is (us|dialect) the pulverised matter from a quartz mill.slickens
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(-)slackens
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(head)slacken
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(en verb)- The pace slackened .
- During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation:...
- He seemed tired, and the Rat let him rest unquestioned, understanding something of what was in his thoughts; knowing, too, the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship, when the weary muscles slacken and the mind marks time.
- Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat...
- to slack lime
