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slatting

slatting is the present participle and gerund of slat.

Noun

slatting (plural slattings)

  1. An arrangement of slats.
  2. The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down.
    • Weakened by the strains of sailing in a severe gale and, no doubt, by the accumulated bangings and endless slattings of the previous year's ocean calms, the top batten had fractured, creating an ineffective and unsightly deep V shape in the top sail panel.2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 39

Meaning of slat

Verb

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 or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
    • Men[dozo]. How did you kill him? / Mal[evole]. Slatted his braines out, then ſowſt him in the brinie ſea. / Men. Braind him and drownd him too?c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii
  3. To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
    • […] a nudge o' kissing-crust After thy leeky broth: I've warmed thy porridge on tha trivet, Jimmy, zay prayers avore 'e have it, And doant 'e slat tha clath.1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 35
  4. To fall; to beat (against something).
    • […] sending solid grey water slatting against her wheelhouse windows.1938, Outdoor Life
  5. (UK, dialectal) To split; to crack.
    • Both head-peeces and habergeons were slat and dashed a peeces.1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC
  6. To set on; to incite.

See all 11 meanings of slat

Forms of slatting

pluralslattings

Questions about slatting

What does slatting mean?
Slatting means an arrangement of slats.
What is slatting the present participle and gerund of?
Slatting is the present participle and gerund of slat.
What part of speech is slatting?
Slatting is a noun.
What is the plural of slatting?
The plural of slatting is slattings.

Words near slatting in the dictionary

  1. slatterns
  2. slatterns away
  3. slatters
  4. slattery
  5. Slatterys
  6. slatting
  7. slattings
  8. Slattocks
  9. Slatton
  10. Slattons
  11. slatts

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