where this one came from?

[A. G. Maisey]

David, the word "slorok" can have a number of meanings, it can mean something that slides over something else, or it can mean a drawer, but when we apply it to a keris blade, we are talking about the core of the blade, the relationship being that the core is something that we have slid between the two billets of pamor material in the making of the blade.

There is another application with keris too, in some pendok there is a loose panel that slides down behind a filigreed panel in the front of the pendok, this loose backing panel is the slorok; in some other types of pendok it can be the major loose front panel that is the slorok.