Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow strip of metal or wood, as in a Venetian blind.
- noun A movable auxiliary airfoil running along the leading edge of the wing of an airplane.
- noun Slang The ribs.
- transitive verb To provide or make with slats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw or cast down violently or carelessly; jerk.
- To strike; knock; beat; bang.
- To flap violently, as the sails when blown adrift in a violent wind, or when in a calm the motion of the ship strikes them against the masts and rigging.
- Same as
slate . - To split; crack.
- noun A sudden flap or slap; a sharp blow or stroke.
- noun A spot; stain.
- noun A spent salmon, or one that has spawned.
- An abbreviation of
south latitude . - noun A green sheepskin, with the wool removed, which has been dried in the sun.
- noun A thin flat stone, or piece of stone, especially a piece of slate; a slate; a stone tile. See
slate . - noun A thin slab or veneer of stone sometimes used to face rougher stonework or brickwork.
- noun A long narrow strip or slip of wood.
- noun In carriage-building, one of the thin strips of wood or iron used to form the ribs of the top or canopy of a buggy, carryall, or rockaway, or to form the bottom of a wagonbody.
- noun One of the radial strips used in forming the bottom of a wicker basket.
- noun plural Dark-blue ooze, rather hard, left dry by the ebb of the sea.
- Made of slats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To split; to crack.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To set on; to incite. See 3d
Slate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin, narrow
strip or bar of wood or metal. - noun A moveable control surface at the leading edge of a
wing that when moved, changes the chord line of theairfoil , affecting theangle of attack . Employed in conjunction withflaps to allow for a lowerstall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. - verb To construct or provide with slats.
- verb To
slap ; tostrike ; tobeat ; to throw down violently. - verb UK, dialect To
split ; tocrack . - verb To
set on ; toincite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb close the slats of (windows)
- verb equip or bar with slats
- noun a thin strip (wood or metal)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the side of the slat were the total inches of height, laid off in halves, quarters, eighths, and so on, and to the right a length measurement for the arm.
The Financier 2004
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In order for a Stryker and its up to 11-person crew to survive an RPG, it will have to be fitted with what's called slat armor, a sort of bird cage that causes the grenade to detonate prematurely.
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At the side of the slat were the total inches of height, laid off in halves, quarters, eighths, and so on, and to the right a length measurement for the arm.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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a bed slat, which is a powerfully strong moral agent for making a boy see the error of his ways.
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a bed slat, which is a powerfully strong moral agent for making a boy see the error of his ways.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887
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They laughed, of course, and remarked each to the other, "Brown, you're getting a 'slat' to-night."
The Light of the Star A Novel Hamlin Garland 1900
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She had thrown on a "slat" sunbonnet, and pinned a red shawl about her shoulders, but had shaken her head so vigorously that the shawl had slipped down and the sunbonnet back, while the frills of her muslin cap waved blindingly before her spectacles.
The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876
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Stumpy had nothing to do but pull them in and "slat" them off as fast as they could.
The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Oliver Optic 1859
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a cleat in the main deck, would give a "slat," with great violence.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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After encountering Liebling in the New Yorker, those readers understood exactly why he, with irrefutable, amiable logic, regarded the press as "the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
Five Best: Ink-Stained Riches Bob Greene 2011
minouchette commented on the word slat
a young man
October 8, 2010