Slating

The act of covering with slate slates or a substance resembling slate the work of a slater...

A broad board painted black or any black surface on which writing drawing or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons It is much used in schools In late 20th century similar boards of a green slate as well as some colored white became common wrioting on the slate bioards may be done with chalk but writing on the white boards is done with colored pens such as grease pens which leaves a trace that can be easily erased The newer boards usualy called chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards...

Novaculite

A variety of siliceous slate of which hones are made razor stone Turkey stone hone stone whet slate...

Slater

One who lays slates or whose occupation is to slate buildings...

Slaty

Resembling slate having the nature appearance or properties of slate composed of thin parallel plates capable of being separated by splitting as a slaty color or texture...

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...

Quarry

Quarry. As any place, not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals, quarries are comprised in the list of non-textile factories and workshops given in Part II. of Sched. VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY. They are also subjected to inspection under the Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Board of Trade by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 50. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Mines and Quarries.'As a noun the term 'quarry' has been defined as the spot where rock is quarried....an excavation or other place from which stone is taken by cutting, blasting or the like. It is open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate or limestone, Labour Inspector v. Chittapur Stone Quarrying Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1177: (1972) 3 SCC 605: (1973) 1 SCR 83....

Basanite

Lydian stone or black jasper a variety of siliceous or flinty slate of a grayish or bluish black color It is employed to test the purity of gold the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal...

chalkboard

a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on with chalk...

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