Slicer Family History

Probably an Americanized form of German Schleisser, an occupational name for someone whose job was to split wood (see Schleis). English (Yorkshire): apparently an occupational name or nickname from Middle English sclicer, an agent derivative of sclicen ‘to slice’ (Old French esclicier ‘to splinter’).

The verb is recorded in the 15th century with the specific sense ‘to cut beef into slices’. Scottish: variant of Slessor, possibly an occupational name from German Schlösser ‘locksmith’, which is form is High German and therefore not due simply to coastal migration from a Low German-speaking area.