What is "slatelike"

Usage examples of "slatelike".

Set into this frame was what appeared to be a slab of slatelike material.

This was flaky followed by loam-covered solid surface with more slatelike shingles above the treeline.

Built mainly in blocks of slatelike schist cemented with banco, their interior walls had been decorated with a yellow plaster of which a little is still preserved.

Their battered metal mugs were balanced on a slatelike shard of polyp above the flames, heating some water.

Two metal mugs were balanced on a slatelike shard of polyp above the flames, heating some water.

One day as I was dragging my long, curling fingernails across the slatelike flagstones, I was thinking of the master remembrancer, Thomas Rane, turning over in my mind the implications of his memory of the god-man, Kelkemesh, and the primal myth.

Almost all of them still sported facades of pinkish plaster, but some were ornamented with a black slatelike stone.

The alders were bare and skeletal, the duckpond between the two houses a slatelike, bare expanse.