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Sound of flapping sails
Answer for the clue "Sound of flapping sails ", 8 letters:
slatting
Word definitions for slatting in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows" close the slats of (windows) [also: slatting , slatted ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slat \Slat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slatted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Slatting .] [OE. slatten; cf. Icel. sletta to slap, to dab.] To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. How did you kill him? Slat[t]ed his brains out. --Marston. To split; to crack. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An arrangement of slats. 2 The violent shake or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down. vb. (present participle of slat English)
Usage examples of slatting.
There was a slatting of canvas as the men started clewing up the huge courses, and the Calypso slowed down.
By now the last gun of the larboard broadside had fired and yet again the Calypso's sails were slatting as she wore round clear of the rocky tip of the peninsula.
When no one came on deck then, with the headway off her and the mainsail slatting idly as she came about, they had acknowledged there was something ominous about it.
Kurgech came in sight of the thief-wagon first: a small tall-masted skimmer with three spindly wheels and slatting sails, moving no faster than a walk.