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Definition of slater in English: slaternoun ˈsleɪtəˈsleɪdər 1A person who slates roofs for a living. Example sentencesExamples - Gavin's father, Sinclair Innes, a local slater and builder, confirmed that his son was playing with another youngster when the accident happened.
- Tony stared off in the building trade and quickly settled into work as a roof slater.
- Sangster, a retired slater, added: ‘The girl at the stonemason's yard was a bit taken aback when I told her the stone was for me.’
- He helped Percy evade the Germans, and in no time had landed him a job as a slater, working near Calais.
- Mum was a cook, while Dad was a slater.
- A slater from Skipton was tried at the town hall on a charge of wilful damage to a confectionery stall.
- There Naismith worked, as best he could given his poor health, as a plasterer and slater.
- Once the ditches have disappeared, the rhythm of tiler and slater, no hand signals, will be translated into a bag of shadows inside a furnace.
2A woodlouse or similar isopod crustacean. Several species in the order Isopoda. See also sea slater Example sentencesExamples - A few Crustacea (slaters or sow bugs) even live on land, usually under old logs and leaf litter.
- Visitors have viewed many types of spiders, beetles and slaters under bright lights and microscopes.
- The sea slater Ligia oceanica is another relative of the woodlouse, it lives in the splash zone on rocky shores and can grow surprisingly large, about 2.5 cm.
- The animal at the left is an Australian Slater, or terrestrial isopod from Lord Howe Island.
- I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies (crinoids, a group of echinoderms related to starfishes).
Rhymes cater, crater, creator, curator, data, debater, delator, dumbwaiter, equator, fascinator, freighter, frustrater, gaiter, grater, gyrator, hater, later, legator, mater, negator, pater, peseta, plater, rotator, skater, stater, tater, traitor, ultimata, understater, upstater, waiter Definition of slater in US English: slaternounˈsleɪdərˈslādər 1A person who slates roofs for a living. Example sentencesExamples - There Naismith worked, as best he could given his poor health, as a plasterer and slater.
- A slater from Skipton was tried at the town hall on a charge of wilful damage to a confectionery stall.
- Mum was a cook, while Dad was a slater.
- Once the ditches have disappeared, the rhythm of tiler and slater, no hand signals, will be translated into a bag of shadows inside a furnace.
- Gavin's father, Sinclair Innes, a local slater and builder, confirmed that his son was playing with another youngster when the accident happened.
- Sangster, a retired slater, added: ‘The girl at the stonemason's yard was a bit taken aback when I told her the stone was for me.’
- He helped Percy evade the Germans, and in no time had landed him a job as a slater, working near Calais.
- Tony stared off in the building trade and quickly settled into work as a roof slater.
2A wood louse or similar isopod. Several species in the order Isopoda. See also sea slater Example sentencesExamples - Visitors have viewed many types of spiders, beetles and slaters under bright lights and microscopes.
- The sea slater Ligia oceanica is another relative of the woodlouse, it lives in the splash zone on rocky shores and can grow surprisingly large, about 2.5 cm.
- I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies (crinoids, a group of echinoderms related to starfishes).
- A few Crustacea (slaters or sow bugs) even live on land, usually under old logs and leaf litter.
- The animal at the left is an Australian Slater, or terrestrial isopod from Lord Howe Island.
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