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Old English
Etymology
From the same source as slean (“to hit”), both related to or derived from Proto-West Germanic *slahan (“to strike”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sliċ n
- hammer
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “slic”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “961”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 961