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Slat   /slæt/   Listen
noun
Slat  n.  A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.


verb
Slat  v. t.  (past & past part. slatted; pres. part. slatting)  
1.
To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.) "How did you kill him? Slat(t)ed his brains out."
2.
To split; to crack. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Slat" Quotes from Famous Books



... twisting and squirming like an eel. I jest had sense enough to clamp my mittens onto the little brass rail by the stern and hold on; then she jibed the second time. She stood up on two legs, the boom come over with a slat that pretty nigh took the mast with it, and the whole shebang whirled around as if it had forgot something. I have a foggy kind of remembrance of locking my mitten clamps fast onto that rail while the rest of me streamed out ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... He would come and sit by my bedside for hours, waiting for this mortality to put on immortality, so that he could collect his bill from the estate, but one day I arose during a temporary delirium, and extracting a slat from my couch I smote him across the pit of the stomach with it, while I hissed through ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... the suspicion uppermost in his mind. "Has that slat-eyed, flat-headed, sun-sapped sneak of a Scotchman been complaining of my work? That, Mr. de Spain," emphasized Bull, leaning forward, "is what I want to know first—is it ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
... look for a ball, even if it has broken a pane of glass on its way. So the boys got a ladder from the Pentzes', and put it up at one of the windows where the blind was broken. Jack went up the ladder. The slat was off, but not in the right place to open the window. There could not be any harm in breaking off another; then he could reach the middle of the sash and pull up the window. No; it was fastened inside. John Stebbins tried, but it ...
— The Last of the Peterkins - With Others of Their Kin • Lucretia P. Hale
... the dust of Washington is placed upon a low pedestal, formed of brick. A brick wall is at the sides, and an iron slat fence or gateway in front. Over this gateway a white stone is set in the brick-work, and bears ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams


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