The Collaborative International Dictionary
sloat \sloat\ (sl[=o]t), n. [See slot a bar.] A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
Wiktionary
n. A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.
Wikipedia
Sloat may refer to:
people- Ann Sloat (b. 1928), Canadian politician
- Donald Sloat, Medal of Honor recipient
- John D. Sloat (1781–1867), American naval commodore who claimed California for the US
- Lefty Sloat (1918–2003), American baseball player
- Micah Sloat (b. 1981), American actor and musician
- Taylor Sloat (b. 1992), American football player
- Sloat, California, in Plumas County
- USS Sloat, ships named after John D. Sloat
- Sloat House, in New York State
Usage examples of "sloat".
Speedy Parker had become closer to him than any other friend, with the possible exception of Richard Sloat, whom Jack had known approximately since the cradle.
His father, Philip Sawyer, at the wheel of the old DeSoto he and Morgan Sloat had driven to California in the unimaginable days when they had been so poor they had often slept in the car.
Sawyer and Sloat was more manageable before you got into real-estate investments and production deals.
He did not remind Jack that his mother was dying, or that Morgan Sloat was coming.
Jack stepped out of the elevator, he wondered for the first time in his life whether Richard Sloat understood what his father was really like.
Or would Morgan Sloat have held out a hand with a twenty-dollar bill folded like a stamp into his meaty palm?
Feeling better already, Sloat followed the man into a dark, narrow cul-de-sac and watched him tip the grease into a garbage can.
Now the kitchen help had to take all their refuse, grease included, out through the dining area and down a chain-link dog run Sloat had constructed alongside the restaurant.
And that night, having primed himself with three large martinis, Sloat drove from his house to the restaurant and took a baseball bat from the trunk of his car and smashed in the long window which had once given a pleasant view of the street but now looked out at a corridor of fencing which ended in a huddle of metal bins.
Morgan Sloat was as proud of it as of the massive new structures they had put up down-town.
Morgan Sloat would push aside the panel over his first-class window and peer down, hoping for moonlight and a parting of the clouds.
Sawyer had underestimated Morgan Sloat from the time of their first meeting, when they were freshmen at Yale.
Tom Woodbine, both of whom seemed unimaginably rich to Sloat, were roommates.
Sawyer, Sloat had learned since their freshman year, was not rich after all.
And then late one afternoon, high on marijuana and whiskey, Phil Sawyer had gigglingly told Sloat about the Territories.