slat
slat Lexical Profile
slat Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A thin, narrow strip of wood, plastic, or metal, especially one of a series that overlap or fit into each other, as in a fence, bed frame, or window blind.
"Sunlight filtered through the wooden slats of the window blinds."
A movable auxiliary airfoil attached to the leading edge of an aircraft wing to increase lift at low speeds.
"The pilot extended the leading-edge slats and flaps to prepare for a slow-speed landing."
• verb
To furnish, construct, or cover with thin, narrow strips of wood or metal.
"The carpenter decided to slat the garden enclosure to allow air to circulate."
To flap or strike noisily against something (especially of a sail in the wind).
"As the breeze died down, the heavy canvas sails began to slat against the mast."
• Rhymes for slat
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English sclat ('slate, roofing tile'), borrowed from Old French esclat ('splinter, fragment'), from the verb esclater ('to burst, split'), of Germanic origin.