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▪ I. ˈslatter, n.
Also 4–5 sclatter, 5–6 sklatter, 6 sklattar.
[f. slat n.1 or v.1]
1. = slater1 1. Now dial.
1379in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. V. 43 Henricus Sclatter & vxor, Sclatter, vjd. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 1793 Sklatteres, Masons, and Carpenter, And other Men of alle mister. 1444Act 23 Hen. VI, c. 12, Les gages ascun..maistre Tiler ou Sclatter. 1539in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 160 William Bybe, sklatter. Waltar Cuddesdon, sklattar. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. v. (1651) 575 As slatters sort their slattes, do they degrees and families. 1669Phil. Trans. IV. 1009 The Sects (the hewing instrument of the Slatters). 1881Leic. Gloss., Slatter, one who ‘slats’ generally, but more particularly a slater.
†2. A wood-louse. = slater1 2.
1739Dr. Clarke in Graham Soc. Life Scotl. in 18th c. (1899) I. i. 50 Give him twice a day the juice of twenty slatters squeezed through a muslin bag.
▪ II. † ˈslatter, v.1
In 5 slat(e)re.
[Cf. slat v.3]
1. trans. To slash or slit (clothes).
a1400Hymns Virgin (1867) 62 Slatre þi clothis boþe schorte & side. 1480Caxton Cron. Eng. ccxxvi. 233 Short clothes and streyte..on euery syde slatered [Brut 297 desslatered] and botened with sleues and tapytes of surcotes.
2. To split, to shiver.
c1400Turnament Tottenham 159 Ther were flayles al to slatred [v.r. flatred],..Bollys and dysches al to schatred.
▪ III. slatter, v.2|ˈslætə(r)|
[Imitative: cf. slat v.2 4.]
intr. To clatter. Also ˈslattering vbl. n.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 20 The slattering of a cadent brickbat. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 588 At first a low muttering is heard,..then a sort of sliding slattering noise, and finally a reverberating thundering crash. 1870Daily News 1 Oct., The Prince might ride by with his escort slattering over the paved street. |