slat
s lat
- n a thin strip (wood or metal)
- v equip or bar with slats
- v close the slats of (windows)
- For a while he was a slat-painter in a venetian-blind factory.
- He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift.
- Made of magnesium (aluminum proved too costly), the new, non-splintering, un-warpable slat travels a hot 10% faster than hickory on a 20 slope, is just as flexible.