slat

Old French esclat.

• IPA^(key): /slæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

slat (plural slats)

1. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal.

   slats of a window blind

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 208:

     To keep people out, the Nature Conservancy, which owns the cave, has blocked off the entrance with huge iron slats.

2. (aeronautical) 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.
3. A thin piece of stone; a slate.

• slatback
• slatless

slat (third-person singular simple present slats, present participle slatting, simple past and past participle slatted)

1. To construct or provide with slats.
2. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
   • Marston

     "How did you kill him?" "Slatted his brains out."

3. (Britain, dialectal) To split; to crack.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

4. To set on; to incite.

• Alts, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, last, lats, salt

From Middle Irish slat, from Proto-Celtic *slattā (“stalk, staff”). Cognate with Welsh llath.

• IPA^(key): /sˠl̪ˠat̪ˠ/

slat f (genitive singular slaite, nominative plural slata or slatacha)

1. rod, slender stick

   Synonyms: bata, maide

2. cane, switch

   Synonym: cána

3. wand
4. slender bar, rod
5. rail
6. sapling, slip, scion
7. (anatomy) penis

   Synonym: bod

8. (measurement) yard

   Synonym: cleith

9. (in the plural) outskirts

Alternative strong plural form: slatacha

slāt

1. first- and third-person singular preterite of slītan

slat f (genitive singular slait or slaite, plural slatan)

1. stick, rod, twig, switch, wand
2. yard (unit of length)
3. (vulgar, slang, anatomy) penis

• mìle (“mile”)
• òirleach (“inch”)
• troigh (“foot”)