Definitions for slat

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Spelling: [slat]

IPA: /slæt/

Slat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in slat (alst).

Definitions for slat

noun

1. a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
2. Aeronautics. a control surface along the leading edge of a wing that can be extended forward to create a gap (slot) to improve airflow.
3. slats, Slang. the ribs. the buttocks. (initial capital letter) a nickname for a tall, slender man.
4. a slap; a sharp blow.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or make with slats.
2. to throw or dash with force.

verb (used without object)

1. to flap violently, as sails.

Origin of slat

1350-1400; Middle English sclat, slatt a slate Middle French esclat splinter, fragment; see éclat

Examples for slat

There was no mistake about it, for Mr. Hector Pellicoes card was nailed to a slat.

Signa asked permission to sleep on the slat lounge outside her door.

Leopold and Stumpy had nothing to do but pull them in and "slat" them off as fast as they could.

"I do believe that old crow has a slat loose," reflected the trapper.

He made the handle from the end of a slat on the bed in the room which I occupied that night.

One screw is used at each joint of a slat and shelf which calls for 32 screws in all.

This shoot is tied to the central wire or slat and is now allowed to fruit.

Then she stomped round 'n' slat the dish-rag, but 't wa'n't no use.

In the Danish, "slat" means to slop, and it is said, "He slat the water up and down."

Then she started back for the caves taking the slat of wood with her as a trophy.