Slack

Slack - Other Definitions

• (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
  
  
• (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
  
  
• (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
  
  
• (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
  
  
• (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
  
  
• (superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
  
  
• (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
  
  
• (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
  
  
• (a.) Alt. of Slacken
  
  
• (v. t.) Alt. of Slacken
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slacken