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

To construct or provide with slats. / To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. / (Britain, dialectal) To split; to crack. / To set on; to incite.

Of or pertaining to a slat; having slats.

simple past tense and past participle of slat

plural of slat

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slat

present participle of slat

An arrangement of slats. / The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down.

plural of slatting

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.