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slat

(slăt)

1. A narrow strip of metal or wood, as in a Venetian blind.

2. A movable auxiliary airfoil running along the leading edge of the wing of an airplane.

3. slats Slang The ribs.

tr.v. slat·ted, slat·ting, slats

To provide or make with slats: slatting the back of a chair.

[Middle English sclat, from Old French esclat, splinter, probably of Germanic origin.]

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But he ceased his yelping to listen to a new noise--a thunderous slatting of canvas accompanied by shouts and cries.

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When I trotted, I rattled like a crate of dishes, and that annoyed me; and moreover I couldn't seem to stand that shield slatting and banging, now about my breast, now around my back; and if I dropped into a walk my joints creaked and screeched in that wearisome way that a wheelbarrow does, and as we didn't create any breeze at that gait, I was like to get fried in that stove; and besides, the quieter you went the heavier the iron set- tled down on you and the more and more tons you seemed to weigh every minute.

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The yacht, completing the manoeuvre, headed into the wind with slatting canvas, and righted to an even keel.