slatiron (slatiern)

In a folding carriage top, an iron shoe incased in leather, forming a finishing to the bow or slat which is pivoted by it to the body of the vehicle. slat-machine (slat'ma-shēn"), n. In wood working: ( a ) A machine for cutting slats from a block. (b) A machine for making the tenons on blind-slats, and for inserting the staples by which such slats are connected. slat-plane (slat'plān), n. A form of plane for cutting thin slats for blinds, etc. In some forms the stock carries a number of cutters, so that several slats are cut simultaneously. E. H. Knight. slattet (slat), n. See slat3 . slatted (slated), p. a. [ slatter (slat'er), v. i. [Freq. of slat1: see slat1.] I. in trans. 1. To be carele of dre and dirty; be slovenly. Dawgos, or Dawkin, a negligent or dirty slattering wo Ray, North Country Words. man. 2. To be wasteful or improvident. This man... is a lord of the treasury, and is not covetous neither, but runs out merely by slattering and negligence. Swift , Journal to Stella, xix. II. trans . To waste, or fail to make a proper use of; spill or lose carele ly. Hall i well . slattern (slat'ern), n . and a . [Prob. (with unorig. n as in bittern1 , or perhaps through the ppr. slattering ) slatter , v.] I. n. A woman who is negligent of her dre , or who suffers her clothes and household furniture to be in disorder; one who is not neat and nice; a slut. tern in her family. We may always observe that a go ip in politics is a slat Add is on, The Freeholder, No. 26. Her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern , whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end. Jane Austen , Mans field Park, xxxix. Slav strike, kill, slay: see slay1. Cf. manslaught, on slaught.] Killing; slaughter. Myche slaghte in the slade, & slyngyng of horse! Mony derfe there deghit, was dole to beholde. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 6006.