Same as slate.
An abbreviation of south latitude.
noun.
A sudden flap or slap; a sharp blow or stroke.
noun.
A spot; stain.
noun.
A spent salmon, or one that has spawned.
noun.
A green sheepskin, with the wool removed, which has been dried in the sun.
noun.
A thin flat stone, or piece of stone, especially a piece of slate; a slate; a stone tile. See slate.
noun.
A thin slab or veneer of stone sometimes used to face rougher stonework or brickwork.
noun.
A long narrow strip or slip of wood.
noun.
In carriage-building, one of the thin strips of wood or iron used to form the ribs of the top or canopy of a buggy, carryall, or rockaway, or to form the bottom of a wagonbody.
noun.
One of the radial strips used in forming the bottom of a wicker basket.
noun.
plural Dark-blue ooze, rather hard, left dry by the ebb of the sea.
Made of slats.
To split; crack.
To throw or cast down violently or carelessly; jerk.
To strike; knock; beat; bang.
To flap violently, as the sails when blown adrift in a violent wind, or when in a calm the motion of the ship strikes them against the masts and rigging.