Slat \Slat\, n. [CF. Slot a bar.]
   A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats
   of a window blind.
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	Slat \Slat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slatted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Slatting.] [OE. slatten; cf. Icel. sletta to slap, to dab.]
   1. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
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            How did you kill him?
            Slat[t]ed his brains out.             --Marston.
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   2. To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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   3. To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate. [Prov. Eng.]
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	slat
    n 1: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline]
    v 1: equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"
    2: close the slats of (windows)

	

	153 Moby Thesaurus words for "slat":
   Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape, band, bandage, bang,
   batten, beam, belt, billet, board, boarding, bump, burst, bust,
   cellophane tape, clap, clapboard, clash, cloth tape, coat, coating,
   collop, cord, cordwood, covering, crack, crash, crump, cut, deal,
   disk, driftwood, fascia, feuille, fillet, film, firewood, flap,
   flop, foil, fold, friction tape, girdle, gruel, hardwood, knock,
   lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath,
   lathing, lathwork, leaf, ligula, ligule, list, log, lumber,
   masking tape, membrane, mere shadow, pane, panel, panelboard,
   paneling, panelwork, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank,
   planking, plastic tape, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, plywood,
   pole, post, puncheon, rail, rake, rap, rasher, report, ribband,
   ribbon, safety glass, scum, shadow, shake, shaving, sheathing,
   sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, shred, sideboard,
   siding, skeleton, skin, slab, slam, slap, slice, slip, smack,
   softwood, soup, spill, splat, spline, splinter, stave, stick,
   stick of wood, stovewood, strake, strap, streak, strip, strop,
   swap, table, tablet, taenia, tap, tape, tape measure, tapeline,
   three-by-four, thwack, ticker tape, timber, timbering, timberwork,
   two-by-four, vein, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, whack, wham, whap,
   whomp, whop, wood