slatchn.
/slatʃ/ ? Obsolete.
1. = slash n.4 rare.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > fragment
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1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 91 A slatch they call a peece of coal by itselfe found in the erthe and is quicklie digged about and no more to be found of that peece.
1916 T. C. Cantrill et al. Geol. S. Wales Coalfield xii. xii. 116 It is probable that the circular or elliptical pockets of coal known as ‘slatches’ or ‘slashes’ are the remains of short closed synclinal masses of coal abnormally swollen out by the squeezing-down of the two sides of the syncline.
2. Nautical.† a. The slack of a rope. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > slack part of rope
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slack1867
a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) 126 When..parte of a Cabell or Roape doth hang slack,..then they said hale the Slatch of the Roape or Cabell. [Hence in Boteler, Holme, Harris, etc.]
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 Hale vp the slatch of the Lee-boling. By Slatch is meant the middle part of any rope hangs ouer boord.
b. A brief respite or interval; a short period or spell (of some kind of weather, etc.).
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
waya1300
distancec1330
interstition1390
spacea1400
pastimea1513
vacance1533
intermission?1566
vacation1567
intervallum1574
interim1579
between-timea1586
wem1599
parenthesis1600
intermedium1611
betweena1616
fore-while?1615
interpolation1615
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interstitium1624
slatcha1625
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intermissa1633
between-spacea1641
interregnum1659
intervalea1661
interlapse1666
interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > spell of weather
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slatcha1625
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fit1690
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spell1728
a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) Whan it hath beene a sett of foule weather and that there comes an Interim..of faire weather,..they call it a little Slatch of faire weather. [Hence in Boteler, Holme, Harris, etc.]
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 79 Wee could neuer haue a cleere slatch from Ice, to haue it vp.
1703 Sir H. Shere Medit. Sea in Ld. Halifax's Misc. 9 At certain times in the Winter Season, they take their Slatches of Flood and Ebb according to their Occasions.
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 7 Apr. This morning it blowing Hard,..so [we] must wait for a slatch of fair Weather.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Slatch, is generally applied to the period of a transitory breeze of wind, or the length of its duration. [Hence in later Dicts.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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