slatn.1
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/With the following example, in which the sense is not clear, cf. slate-incense n. at slate n.1 Compounds 2b.—
1345–6 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 133 In xxxiiij libris de slatt' pro incens' empt. 5s. 8d.
1. in extended use.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 55 He unheled chirches roves and coppes þat were i-heled wiþ slattes of bras, and took awey þe slattes.
a. A roofing-slate; a thin slab of stone used for roofing. Now dialect.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > piece of
slatc1384
slate1455
stone-slate1530
roof slate1784
scantle1850
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke v. 19 Thei not fyndinge in what part thei schulde bere him yn..stiȝeden vp on the rof, and by the sclattis thei senden [emended in ed. to senten] him doun with the bed in to the myddil.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 399 There lyme is copious, And sclattes also for hous.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449 Sklat, or slat stone, latericia, ymbrex.
1521 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 399 No man shall buld..anny straue or tache housse..unlesse they be covered with sklattes.
1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 234 For ij. foder of sclatts caring frome plawsworth.
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 118 The Roofe, instead of Slats, Is couer'd with the skinns of Batts.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 391 All the houses of the Village were cover'd with slats or tiles.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Slatt, a thin slab of stone used to cover buildings, distinct from what are called slates.
b. Used to denote a certain shape.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > object
platec1300
plat1349
pal?1541
slat1634
pallet1722
1634 Lowe's Chirurg. 354 Part of the bone is superficially separated like unto a little spelch or sclat.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 81 The Figure of them is for the most part flat, in the manner of Slats.
1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 40 Sediment like Meal, is ill. If like Slats, worst.
c. A large slab of stone. rare.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > slab
slab-stone1851
slat1894
1894 S. R. Crockett Mad Sir Uchtred v. 61 The burn comes down over broad slats of granite.
2. A writing-slate. Now dialect.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > slate > [noun]
slatc1390
slatea1500
grapholite1794
c1390 G. Chaucer Merciles Beaute 34 Love hath my name y-strike out of his sclat.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 63 Draw a Circle on a Slat or Paper.
1823 [see sense 3a]. 3. † b. Slate, or some slaty substance, used in the form of powder, esp. as a medicine; Irish slat, alum-slate. (Cf. slate n.1 4b.) Obsolete.† c. Slate as a variety of stone or rock. Obsolete.
a. Slate used for roofing buildings. Now dialect.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing
slatea1340
slatc1400
slating1815
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 18362 Thei caste al doun thes worthi wones, Led & tyle, sclat & stones.
1412–3 Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 76 Et in ij Ml sclat emptis.
1581 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 413 He shall..cover the same..wth slatt.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 470 Built but of Brick, of rusty Tyles, and Slat.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 360 Slat, slate, either that used at school, or to roof houses, or what is found among coals.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > slate used medicinally
Irish slate1633
slat1639
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > powder > [noun] > specific powders > prepared from minerals
Irish slate1633
slat1639
calomel1676
grey powder1842
mercurous chloride1859
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xiii. 265 Take of black or blew Slat, and make it into fine powder.
1643 Sir B. Grenvile MS. Letter I am something sore, and did spitt bloud two daies... I had no slatt, neither do I now need it.
1665 R. Howard Committee in Four New Plays 111 Go in and take some Irish slat by way of Prevention, and keep your self warm.
1684 Minutes Philos. Soc. Oxf. 18 Mar. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1698) 20 271 Irish Slat Pulveriz'd, and infus'd in Water.., would impart its Vitriolick Quality.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > slate
slate-stone1392
slat1605
slate1653
shindle1669
shiffer1683
shelf1849
shale-stone1880
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 104 Slat, Iet, and Marble shall escape my pen, I ouer-passe the Salt-mount Oromene.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. ii. ii. 329 A Metalline Slat from the Tin-Mines.
1697 E. Lhuyd Let. 15 June in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 467 The Slat above this Coal afforded only Stalks of Plants.
4.
a. A long narrow strip of wood or metal, used for various purposes.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of wood or metal
spleet1609
spline1756
slat1764
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 189 Nailing of slats, old hoops, or laths, on the two sides and fore end of the cart.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The slats of a cart or a chair.
1866 Harvard Mem. Biogr., R. Ware I. 242 The bulk of those now in bed must have lain on the slats of the bedstead.
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 28 Arranged in transverse rows, like slats on a blind.
1890 H. S. Hallett 1000 Miles 277 When the floors are of split bamboo..the interstices between the slats are many and often large.
b. In vehicles: (see quots.).
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1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 48 The side-pieces are called slats, which are..hung on a centre pin or bolt to the elbow-rails.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 244 Slats, the sleepers or rails to support the bed of a cart.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2199/1 Slat,..a bent strip which bows over the seat and forms one of the ribs of the canopy.
c. plural. The ribs. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > rib > [noun]
ribeOE
rib bonec1400
side bone1620
costa1873
slats1898
1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 33 There's nothing much the matter with him; few of his slats stove in, that's all.
1900 G. Bonner Hard Pan vi. 191 She got you straight in the slats that time.
a1906 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp 162 What they need is a man to come home and kick their slats in once a week.
1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 11 Billy bats Some stinging short-arms in my slats.
1916 C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 28 Why don't ole England belt 'em in the slats?
1928 New Yorker 3 Nov. 44/2 When Mr. Kaplan pokes M. de Vos in the slats he (or it) [sc. the crowd] halloos rapturously for Mr. Kaplan.
1944 W. Stevens Let. 12 Sept. (1967) 473 I want to give the office a kick in the slats.
1976 Observer 29 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 33/1 The crunch probably came with the V & G report where, to my mind unfairly, certain civil servants got a real kick in the slats.
d. Aeronautics. The part of an aeroplane wing that is forward of a slot near the leading edge, or that can be moved forward to create such a slot and so provide additional lift. Cf. slot n.2 2d.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part directing air into slot
slat1931
1931 Man. Rigging for Aircraft (H.M.S.O.) (ed. 3) i. 12 Slots are a device for varying the air flow over the surface of an aerofoil, by the use of an auxiliary aerofoil, or slat, set parallel to and in front of the leading edge of the main aerofoil.
1935 C. G. Burge Compl. Bk. Aviation 451/2 The slat behind which the slot itself lies is mounted so that it swings forward automatically when an angle of incidence some few degrees below stalling point is reached.
1960 C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane i. xiii. 104 The slotted wing, matured in 1919,..was a device consisting of a curved slat (at first manually operated and then automatic) which was made to project from the leading edge of the wing and thus force air through the resulting slot and over the upper surface of the wing: the effect was to..postpone stalling.
5.
a. Basket-making. (See quots.) Cf. slath n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > foundation or skeleton
slat1837
slath1875
warp-slat1907
1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 153 The larger ones [sc. osiers] forming the slat and skeleton of the basket.
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 109/1 In this way the foundation of the basket, called the slat or slate, is formed.
b. dialect. A hurdle.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hurdle
hurdlec725
flakec1330
grater1598
wattle1640
bara1642
tray1829
slat1883
flake-hurdle1890
1883 C. R. Smith Retrosp. I. 4 Some open hurdles, or slats as they are called in Kent.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. In senses 1 – 3, as slat-coal, slat-pen, slat-pin, slat-stone.
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1412–3 Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 76 In sclatpynnes emptis xx d.
1436–7 Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 114 Et in sclatpynnes et tyȝlpynnes emptis iiij s.
c1440 [see sense 1a]. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xii. 195 If you make it upon a Slat Stone,..you may wipe the Arch, that is lightly drawn by a Slat Pen.., off at pleasure.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 222 This resembles a Slat-Coal of a Lead colour.
b. (In sense 4.) Originally and chiefly U.S., of a chair: having a back constructed of several horizontal ribs (cf. ladder-back n. at ladder n. Compounds 2 (chair)); also absol. as n.Various other combinations are given by E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
slat-awning n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2199/1 A corrugated iron slat-awning.
slat-bar n.
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1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 388/2 Slat Bar, the bar of a siege howitzer limber between the splinter bar and bolster.
slat-bottom n.
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1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 819/2 The olives are first dried in trays with slat bottoms.
slat-matting n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2202/1 Slat-matting, a floor covering of wooden slats or veneers on a flexible fabric, which may be rolled like a carpet.
C2.
slat-back adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [adjective] > types of chair
caned1696
rush-bottomed1696
rush-bottom1729
roundabout chair1741
leather-bottomed1783
stick-back1783
poker-backed1830
flag-bottomed1840
claw-footed1858
seatless1871
cane-bottomed1877
cane-seated1881
sag-seated1890
sit-up1891
slat-back1891
sag-bottomed1893
spindle-back1896
shield-back1897
Carver1902
basket-bodied1903
panel-back1904
Cromwellian1905
hooped-back1906
saddle-backed1910
hard-arsed1933
sling-back1948
X-frame1955
hard-arse1964
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type
wainscot chair1663
Windsor chair1724
slat-back1891
comb-back1901
Windsor1901
wheel-back1902
hoop-back1905
ladder-back1908
spoon-back1909
Mendlesham chair1935
1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. 165 They were called in their day ‘bannister back’, ‘split back’, ‘slit back’, and sometimes ‘slat back’ chairs.
1904 W. B. Ware Seats of Colonists 12 Slat-back Chair: Now often known as Shaker Chair, is the simplest expression of the Turned Chair.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 434 Slat back, a name sometimes used for a primitive form of ladder back chair, with four or five slats between the seat and the top rail: a type made in the countryside.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 4- c/1 (advt.) Slat-back rocker is constructed of selected hardwoods with an antique pine finish.
slat conveyor n. (see quot. 1957).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > conveyor > types of
rolling road1905
conveyor belt1906
tilting bucket conveyor1911
slat conveyor1916
carousel1961
1916 G. F. Zimmer Mech. Handling & Storing (ed. 2) vii. 101 Slat conveyors are used largely to carry substance in bags, also general merchandise packed in boxes and crates.
1957 J. A. W. Huggill in H. W. Cremer Chem. Engin. Practice III. 413 The slat conveyor, for packages, sacks and similar unit loads, has its carrying surface made of wooden or metal slats.., each attached to the chain links.
slat fence n. U.S. a fence made of slats.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > fence made of slats
slat fence1790
1790 W. Bentley Diary 22 June (1905) I. 180 The Principal Garden is in three parts divided by an open slat fence painted white.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxxiii. 424 He came to the slat fence. He felt his way along it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slatn.2
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/ 1. A slap; a slapping blow. Now dialect.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat
clap?14..
patc1425
skelpc1440
plata1522
slat1611
slapping1632
slap1648
flop1662
smack1775
smacker1775
skelping1818
spat1823
spatting1840
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Truellée, a trowell-full; or, a clap, slat, or slamp with a Trowell.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 7 Ad! chell gi' tha..a Zlat in the Chups.
1837– in Devon and Somerset use (see Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 46 Such snocks and slats, since war began Never knew raw recruit or veteran.
2. A sudden gust or blast of wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of
ghosteOE
blasta1000
blas?c1225
ragec1405
blorec1440
flaw1513
thud1513
flaga1522
fuddera1522
flake1555
flan1572
whid?1590
flirta1592
gust1594
berry1598
wind-catch1610
snuff1613
stress1625
flash1653
blow1655
fresh1662
scud1694
flurry1698
gush1704
flam1711
waff1727
flawer1737
Roger's Blasta1825
flaff1827
slat1840
scart1861
rodges-blast1879
huffle1889
slap1890
slammer1891
Sir Roger1893
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 276 The sail..by a slat of the wind, blew in under the yard, with a fearful jerk.
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slatn.3
rare.
(See quot. 1780.)
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1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 348 Frize..at a slatt or measure, four feet two inches long, and 20 to 23 inches wide.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
slatn.4
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/ A salmon out of season; a spent salmon.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > after spawning
keltc1340
blackfish1551
float fish1794
slat1870
1870 Daily News 16 Feb. An unclean and unseasonable salmon of the species called ‘kelts’ in Scotland and ‘slats’ in Ireland.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 69 After spawning this fish [salmon] is a kelt or slat.
1886 Field 27 Feb. 261/1 These ‘slats’ would then escape, and the cause of a great injury to the fishing be prevented.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† slatadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Baited.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective]
slatc1300
bested1303
forswonga1400
vexed1440
plagued1563
molested1580
bustled1602
grieved1627
travailed1644
over-troubled1646
harassed1693
baited1720
badgered1794
gêné1806
bedevilled1827
besieged1866
c1300 Pol. Songs (Camden) 154 He sitteth ase a slat swyn that hongeth is eren.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
slatv.1
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/ 1. transitive. To cover with slates. Now dialect.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > tile, slate, or shingle
heela1387
tile1467
slatc1475
slate1530
shingle1562
c1475 Reg. Crabhouse Nunnery in Norfolk Archaeol. (1892) 11 61 Sche made the cloystir..and slattyd it.
1615 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. I. 79 I compounded with Iohn Lambert to slatt my new stable in yoghall.
1667 in Earwaker E. Cheshire (1877) I. 114 Paid for slatting the Lych porch.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.)
2. intransitive. To place or fix slats.
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1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 511 After they are all laid in their proper place, continue to slat between them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slatv.2
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/ 1.
a. transitive. To flap, cast, dash, impel quickly and with some force. Const. down, against, on, etc.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > violently
shoveOE
swengea1225
slata1250
sleata1250
dashc1290
thringa1300
hurlc1305
lashc1330
to ding downc1380
rampenc1390
dinga1400
reelc1400
rash1485
flounce1582
squat1658
ram1718
whang1820
slug1862
slam1870
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 69 Hwen ha iheren þe god sclattes [?c1225 Cleo. scletteð; c1230 Corpus skleatteð; a1250 Nero sleateð] þenne þe eare dun.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Flacquer He squasht, slat, or squat her downe there.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. To slat on, to dash against, or cast on any thing.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors xiii. 207 The danger from a whale's flukes and fins, as the monster slues and slats them round.
1866 J. T. Staton Rays fro th' Loominary 37 If he comes this way ogen..aw'll slat some watter on him.
1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 95 She'll slat the letters down every which way, and you've got to hunt 'em out for yourself.
b. To knock off by impact or pulling.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike off with a blow
to smite offa1225
latch1535
wipe1596
to knock offa1616
slat1828
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > suddenly or quickly > (as) with a blow
strike1599
slat1828
flick1846
1828 A. Sherburne Mem. (1831) ii. 55 The women and girls take and very dextrously..slat off their heads and split them.
1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 545 Fishermen on the Eastern coast, who disengaged mackerel and other delicate-gilled fish by slatting them off the hook.
2. To strike, beat; to knock out.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike out with a blow
latcha1225
slentc1380
to hit out1393
squat?1553
slat1577
to knock outa1616
king1916
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1665/2 A butcherly knaue named Fulques..slat hym in the head with a clubbe.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. ii. sig. F3v Men. How did you kill him? Mal. Slatted his brains out.
1837– in south-western dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
3. intransitive. (See quots.) dialect.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > beat
pelt1665
slat1838
belt1963
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly or forcibly > down, esp. as rain
slat1838
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms To slat or sclat, to beat with violence against any thing, as rain against a window.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 244 Why the water's slatting off your hat on to your coat.
4.
a. Nautical. Of sails: To flap violently.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > shake or flap (of sails)
shake1769
shiver1769
flog1839
slat1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 38 We got out upon the weather side of the jib-boom,..the great jib flying off to leeward and slatting so as almost to throw us off the boom.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi The canvas slatting out and in, in great bights.
1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. vi. 256 The sail slatted so violently that it was as much as we could do..to get the canvas up to leeward.
b. In other contexts: To flap or slap.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely
wapc1400
flaffa1522
flap1529
flip-flap1599
flop1602
flasker1689
wamfle1808
wallop1822
flacket1823
flapper1835
swap1884
slat1889
faffle1951
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with something flat
skelpa1400
spat1868
slat1889
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xii. 144 I couldn't seem to stand that shield slatting and banging..about my breast.
1897 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) 333 The removable desk-boards had been taken away, and nothing left for disorderly members to slat with.
Derivatives
ˈslatting n. and adj.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely
flaffinga1522
flapping1592
swapping1642
flappish1665
flopping1679
flip-flap1841
slatting1883
aflap1887
flappy1905
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > flapping loosely > violently
slatting1883
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 942/1 All hands..jumping aloft like monkeys to roll up the slatting canvas.
1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship I. 46 Every moment this terrible slatting threatened her other spars.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slatv.3
/slat/, U.S. /slæt/ Now dialect.
intransitive and transitive. To split.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave
chinea700
to-chinec725
cleavea1225
to-cleavec1275
rivec1330
to-slentc1380
to-sundera1393
cracka1400
rifta1400
chapc1420
crevec1450
break1486
slave?1523
chink1552
chop1576
coame1577
cone1584
slat1607
cleft1610
splita1625
checka1642
chicka1642
flaw1648
shale1712
vent1721
spalt1731
star1842
seam1880
tetter1911
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure
to-slita1250
rivea1400
slatterc1400
chapc1460
chip1508
gaig1584
spleet1585
split1595
chink1599
chawn1602
slent1605
slat1607
sliver1608
speld1616
crevice1624
checka1642
chicka1642
crack1664
splice1664
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 415 It [sc. the nail] slatteth and shiuereth in the driuing into two parts.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 424 Both head-peeces and habergeons were slat and dashed a peeces.
1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd 72 If his Horns had not been Flatted Perhaps my Head he might ha' Slatted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1c1384
n.21611
n.31780n.41870
adj.c1300v.1c1475v.2a1250v.31607- narrowbrimmed
- narrowcast
- narrowcasted
- narrowcaster
- narrowcasting
- narrowcastings
- narrowcasts
- narrowcelled
- narrowchested
- narrowcompassed
- narrowcraiged
- narrowcut
- narrowed
- narrowended
- narrower
- narrowest
- narroweyed
- narrowfilleted
- narrowgauge
- narrowgutted
- narrowhead
- narrowhearted
- narrowheartedness
- narrowheeled
- narrowhipped