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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slat
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wooden
▪ Continental style bases have flexible wooden slats and are often contained within a traditional divan.
▪ The backs of the trucks are jammed with young men and teenagers pressed against wooden slats.
▪ The wooden slats had bleached grey.
▪ We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.
▪ The wooden slats were already warm from the sun.
▪ There was no glass in the frame, just thin wooden slats to allow some passage of air.
▪ The three ruffians pummelled me, banging my head against the wooden slats.
▪ A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Art! my slats....
▪ Continental style bases have flexible wooden slats and are often contained within a traditional divan.
▪ I really like the tiles from Lindsey Teak that come with straight or diagonal slats.
▪ I tried peeking down through a gap between the bamboo slats.
▪ I twisted the plastic rod and watched the slats in our venetian blinds open.
▪ The company introduced a Missioninspired recliner with straight lines and vertical slats.
▪ The wooden slats were already warm from the sun.
▪ We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slat

Slat \Slat\, n. [CF. Slot a bar.] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.

Slat

Slat \Slat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slatting.] [OE. slatten; cf. Icel. sletta to slap, to dab.]

  1. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

    How did you kill him? Slat[t]ed his brains out.
    --Marston.

  2. To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

  3. To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slat

late 14c., earlier sclat (c.1300), "a roofing slate, a thin, flat stone," from Old French esclat "split piece, chip, splinter" (Modern French éclat), back-formation from esclater "to break, splinter, burst," probably from Frankish *slaitan "to tear, slit" or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German slizan, Old English slitan; see slit (v.)). Meaning "long, thin, narrow piece of wood or metal" attested from 1764.

Wiktionary
slat

n. 1 A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal. 2 (context aeronautical English) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. vb. 1 To construct or provide with slats. 2 To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. 3 (context UK dialect English) To split; to crack. 4 To set on; to incite.

WordNet
slat

  1. v. equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"

  2. close the slats of (windows)

  3. [also: slatting, slatted]

slat

  1. n. a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: spline]

  2. [also: slatting, slatted]

Wikipedia
Slat

Slat or slats may refer to:

Usage examples of "slat".

He turned his back on me and again lifted one of the green slats and peered outside, letting in anarrow beam of light that angled across the patchy darkness of the office, and straight into my eyes.

The remains of a bedtick moldered on the slats, its grass stuffing given over to the nests of the birds and rodents.

Before Sanders could answer, Ventress had stepped over to the larger of the two suitcases on the slatted stand beside the wardrobe.

The mound of dense rubbish spilt slowly into an inverted cone, slipping past the shattered slats of the crate.

Rough wooden or tin partitions, slatted floors, and rudimentary ladderlike stairs had been attached as best they could be to the original bare steel strutting and concrete buttresses of the monorail station.

With fingertips of suprahuman sensitivity, he could feel the little pulses of power below those slats of thin metal and ceramic and wood, like blood through capillaries.

The vehicle bumped along on large toroidal balloons made of a native tree resin, and used laminated wooden bow slats as springs.

To optimize maneuverability, a computer automatically adjusted the flaps and slats when the machine was maneuvering in the subsonic and transonic speed ranges.

She thought it unlikely that a flight attendant would know about uncommanded slats deployment.

He finds it is up and locked, which is puzzling, since it means he has an uncommanded slats deploy .

I sat by the doors that were slatted And the stuff had a surf like the sea-- No vintage was anywhere vatted Too strong for ventripotent me!

So, at those times we increase the curvature, by extending sections in the front and backflaps at the back, and slats at the leading edge.

Slat Mor, Slat Marr, Slat Beag, the Cailliach of the Rocks, and four badachs.

Amadan of the Dough, and I have killed Slat Mor, Slat Man, Slat Beag, the Cailliach of the Rocks and her four badachs, the Black Bull of the Brown Woods, the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls, and the Beggarman of the King of Sweden, and before night I will have killed the Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.

But the sides were open slats and crossbeams, so the guards could watch the captives.