slotn.1
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/, Scottish English /slɔt/ Chiefly northern and Scottish.
1.
a. A bar or bolt used to secure a door, window, etc., when closed. Now dialect.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar
shuttle971
barc1175
esselc1275
slota1300
sperel13..
ginc1330
staple-bar1339
shotc1430
shuttingc1440
shutc1460
spar1596
counter-bar1611
shooter1632
drawbar1670
night bolt1775
drop-bolt1786
snibbing-bolt1844
stay-band1844
window bar1853
heck-stower1876
barrel bolt1909
latch bolt1909
panic bolt1911
a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter cvi. 16 He forgnod yhates,..And slottes irened brake he þare.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 471 Sere, veroil et cerrure, Barre, slot and stapul.
1391 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 108 In iij slottes ferri pro camp'is (?) figend. 3d.
1424–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 272 j fenestra in domo carbonum, cum j slott, j stapill.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 460/1 Slot, or schytyl of a dore, verolium.
1515 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 13 Expensis..on lokkis, irne slottis, bandis of irne..for reparing and dichting of the palice.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiv/2 Ye Slot of a doore, pessulus.
1651 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 49 Who assaulted his house, attempting to break in by opening two slotts or boults.
1663 in Scottish Notes & Queries (1902) July 2 [They] did bring..ane number of yrons, bolts or slotts and caused put the samen vpon the doores.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Slade In Northumberland the slot of a door is the bolt.
1825– in many northern dialect glossaries.
1855 H. Ainslie Sc. Songs, Ballads, & Poems 98 Our Cadger..slippit in, Syne cannilie shot, the muckle door sloat.
1874 J. Crawford Mem. Alloa 76 He drew the slot, an'..In..the stranger passed.
b. A bolt forming part of the mechanism of a lock.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > bolt
bolt1463
slot1890
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 325 I did my best to put back the slot of one of the locks.
2. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Slot, any broad, flat wooden bar.1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) vii. 414 Bridges formed of four or six rough trees, secured at their crossings by the cross-pieces, (slots in carpentry).1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1316 A bridge [in a cider-press]..is suspended at each end by two slots (cross bars) playing on a rim.1892 Daily Tel. 17 June 4/8 He noticed that the ‘slot’ worked from the next box was down.
a. A metal rod; a flat wooden bar, esp. one forming a cross-piece.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
stingc725
stakec893
sowelc900
tree971
rungOE
shaftc1000
staffc1000
stockc1000
poleOE
spritOE
luga1250
lever1297
stanga1300
perchc1300
raftc1330
sheltbeam1336
stower1371
palea1382
spar1388
spire1392
perk1396
ragged staff1397
peela1400
slot1399
plantc1400
heck-stower1401
sparkin1408
cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
bode1483
spit1485
bolm1513
gada1535
ruttock1542
stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
bamboo1598
loggat1600
barling1611
sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
1399 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 133 In slot de ferro empto pro prædicto baner, 4d.
c1400 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 444 Slot of iron [for the guns].
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 334 iij serpentinis gunnis..; with ilkane tua chameris, thair mykkis and thair slottis.
1542 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 185 Menzes and..Nicholsoune to be maisteris of the artillierie, and to provyd boolis, slottis, and all vder munitionis requirit thairto.
b. spec. One of the crossbars connecting the bulls of a harrow.Occurs much earlier as slote: see slote n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow > parts of
harrow-tooth1483
bull?1523
harrow-bull?1523
spindle1616
whippin1697
whippletree1733
tining1760
sheth1788
slot1799
harrow-tine-
1799 Hull Advertiser 15 June 2/2 Timber. For sale,..harrow bulls and slots.
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 527 Four longitudinal bars,..with four lighter transverse bars, or slots.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 359 The ‘slots’ or cross-pieces of thin ash.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slotn.2
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/ 1. The slight depression or hollow running down the middle of the breast. Now Scottish and rare.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [noun] > chest > parts of
breast-pita1398
slot?a1400
chest-wall1879
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2254 O-slante doune fro þe slote he slyttes at ones!
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1593 Þe mon..Set sadly þe scharp in þe slot euen, Hit hym vp to þe hult, þat þe hert schyndered.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1330 Syþen þay slyt þe slot, sesed þe erber.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3063 The slote of hir slegh brest [was] sleght for to showe.
1715 A. Pitcairne Method of curing Small-pox in G. Sewell & J. T. Desaguliers tr. A. Pitcairne Wks. 271 If a Child..has Pain in the Back, or Slot of the Breast.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Slot of the breast, the pit of the stomach; where the breast-bone slopes away on each side, leaving a hollow.
a1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
2.
a. An elongated narrow depression or perforation made in the thickness of a piece of timber, etc., usually for the reception of some other part or piece, whether fixed or movable.slot hole occurs earlier (1485) in this sense: see Compounds 1.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow
furrowc1374
groopc1440
regal1458
rat1513
slot?1523
gutter1555
chamfer1601
channel1611
fluting1611
furrowing1611
rita1657
denervation1657
rigol1658
groove1659
riggota1661
rake1672
stria1673
champer1713
cannelure1755
gully1803
channelure1823
flute1842
rill1855
droke1880
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft > straight and narrow
slit1398
splite1489
slot?1523
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iii At the plough tayle where be two wedges that be called slote wedges the one is in the slote above the beam, another in the sayd slote vnder the plough beam.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) I. ii. xi. 227 A square blocke of wood.., which dooth ride vp and downe in a slot, rabet, or regall betweene two pieces of timber.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Siv Formerly the Fork[s] were used to be Tennerd, and the Sills made with Slotts to put them in.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 435 The catch-box has a slot, fitting a feather on the spindle.
1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 33 A brass guard, in which there was a slot for a pin to slide in.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic 76 Mortising machines and others for boring and making slots in timber.
b. The opening in a slot-machine for the reception of a coin. Also figurative. Also (slang), a slot-machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > coin-operated > opening in
slot1888
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft > straight and narrow > for reception of a coin
slot1888
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > coin-operated
automatic machine1808
slot-machine1891
automat1895
penny-in-the-slot1922
slot1950
coin-op1960
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 5/1 ‘Drop a penny into the slot’ and you can..obtain a cigarette.
1893 Times 28 Apr. 9/3 The Chancellor..has had recourse to the latest automatic invention, and has put a penny in the slot.
1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River xiii. 135 The slots are going night and day.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xviii. 197 The slots usually brought in a profit of about a hundred thousand dollars a week.
c. The middle of the semi-circular or horseshoe-shaped desk at which a newspaper's sub-editors work, occupied by the chief sub-editor. U.S. slang.
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society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun] > sub-editor's desk
slot1917
1917 H. Grant Two Sides of Atlantic iii. 44 The man who ‘sits in the slot’ (the chief-sub.), will know for a certainty that the decision of ‘Bill’ to invade Windy City will automatically entail the departure of all who ‘hunt’ with Bill.
1923 W. G. Bleyer Newspaper Writing & Editing (rev. ed.) i. 10 The copy-desk is semicircular in form, and the head copy-reader sits in the ‘slot’, or inside of the desk, while the copy-readers occupy places around the outside, or ‘rim’.
1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 123 Slot, the middle of the horseshoe~shaped copy desk where the news editor or copy editor (sometimes called slotman) sits. To be in the slot is to be in charge of the copy desk.
d. Aeronautics. A linear gap in an aerofoil, running parallel to its leading edge, which allows the passage of air from the lower to the upper surface and so increases the lift. Cf. slat n.1 4d.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > gap for passage of air
slot1920
1920 Flight 12 1124/1 It has already been mentioned that the slot separating the false from the main leading edge is contracted towards the upper surface.
1936 Discovery Mar. 73/2 The Weick and Hammond have..a control which is a combination of slot and aileron. This is intended to obviate the need of a rudder.
1960 C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane ii. 221 Ingenious as the machine undoubtedly was,..there is no visible trace of any slots, or of any wires or other gear attached to, or passing anywhere near, the wings that could be associated with slots.
e. The vulva. coarse slang. Cf. slit n. 1d.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva
vulva?a1425
wombgatec1450
nock1611
nonny-nonny1611
slit1648
old hat1697
concha1855
monkey1863
gash1873
slot1942
vag1967
mickey1969
front bum1985
punani1987
front bottom1991
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/38 Female pudendum..shape, slot, snatch, tail.
1977 C. Miller & K. Swift Words & Women vii. 117 No such positive connotations attach to prick, but even this word does not convey the absolute scorn of slit, slot, snatch, and gash.
f. A marked-out parking space. Chiefly U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place
car parking1915
parking space1916
parking place1922
parking area1925
stall1940
slot1944
parking bay1957
1944 R. Chandler Lady in Lake xiii. 74 I..parked in one of the diagonal slots at the side of the Prescott Hotel.
1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race iii. 35 I shunted my car into a small slot near the fire station.
1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xvii. 195 Holcroft backed the car out of its slot, then drove through the entrance posts onto the country road.
g. A prison cell; also, = cell n.1 4b. Australian slang.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell
houseOE
cabinc1522
hole1535
lodging1612
hold1717
cell1728
lock-up room1775
glory-hole1825
box1834
drum1846
sweat-box1870
booby-hutch1889
Peter1890
booby1899
boob1908
flowery dell1925
slot1947
1947 Pix 20 Sept. 15 Peter or slot, cell.
1969 Sydney Sunday Tel. 21 Dec. 14/4 ‘I'd hate to try and tot up the number of hooks and badges (rank and good conduct insignia) that little lot's whipped away since the ship came out.’.. ‘And what about the slot (cells) they've dished out. It must run into years!’
1976 Cleo (Austral.) Aug. 33 Some of the old heads are in the slot, he says. The slot is jail.
3. (See quots.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > hoofed animal > parts of > hoof or part of
cleec825
clawc1000
hoofc1000
slot1590
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting D j Diuers Buckes haue sundrie slots in their palmes: some haue slots on both sides: other some are plaine palmed.
1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam 373 The slots or divisions of the hoofs now showed very deep and distinctly in the soft earth.
4. dialect. (See quots. 1796, 1882.) Also attributive, as slot-hem.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > hem
hem1665
slot1796
French hem1863
whip-hem1866
harem hem1920
1796 F. Leighton MS. Let. To the Yorkshire words add Slot, meaning the open hem in which the strings run of a purse, work-bag, night cap, &c.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 508 A couple of tapes drawn tight in a slot-hem.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 452/2 Slot, an inelegant term, employed in the eastern counties of England to denote a casing formed either by a double Running, or by a Hem, for the reception of a ribbon or tape, to be used as a Running~string.
5.
a. Scottish. (See quot. 1808)This sense is also recorded for Norwegian slot (Ross), and may represent a different word.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills
saddleOE
swirec1050
pocket1745
lap1747
rock basin1754
niche1756
sliddera1793
corrie1795
cove1805
slot1808
bay1853
punchbowl1855
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. The slot of a hill, a hollow in a hill, or between two ridges.
b. Australian and New Zealand. A crevasse.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > crevasse
crevasse1823
bergschrund1843
crevice1852
rimaye1869
schrund1870
randkluft1883
slot1959
1959 Tararua 13 46 Slot, for a crevasse, sometimes used by climbers, is not necessary and is merely slang.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 58 This was the roughest bit of country yet—short, miserable, scrubby trees and stringy bushes; broken country, high slots and hollows full of water.
6. figurative.
a. A position in a list, hierarchy, system, or scheme; a position to be filled; a category; a place or division in a timetable, esp. in broadcasting.
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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > time of broadcast or place in schedule
fixed point1778
time1924
airtime1931
spot1937
adjacency1947
prime time1947
airdate1950
space1956
slotting1959
airspace1960
time slot1962
slot1964
strand1979
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §672/10 Rank or rating in league, division, percentage ladder, slot.
1947 W. H. Auden in Amer. Scholar Autumn 404 Among the staring blemishes that mark War's havocking slot.
1956 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 2 June 50/2 No management slot is harder to fill today than the research director's post.
1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man ii. viii. 104 Sales work..is about the only slot they would qualify for if they took English or history.
1964 Economist 25 Jan. 327/2 There is a ‘slot’ in the market for a medium-range supersonic airliner.
1964 Economist 20 June 1369/3 The ‘slots’ once gained, were never given up [by regional TV stations].
1966 Listener 6 Oct. 518/1 It seems perverse that when the Monday evening ‘slot’ has been extended to as much as two hours for lesser fry, it should be made to stand at ninety minutes for The Merchant of Venice (Home Service, September 26).
1967 Listener 6 Apr. 467/3 ‘Theology, during the great controversies of the mid-nineteenth century, was anti-scientific.’.. (Try fitting Newman or even Kingsley into that slot!)
1969 Times 21 Nov. 23/5 How serious is the situation at Heathrow?.. There are no spare ‘slots’ into which landing and taking-off airliners can be fitted.
1970 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 13/2 The first Radio London slot each day will be from 6.45 a.m. to 9 a.m., a blend of news, music, personalities and information called ‘Rush Hour’.
1972 Business Week 18 Mar. 81/1 Although he held a top slot at snia, he was lured away for the even bigger job at Alitalia.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xxii. 298 An Italian millionaire..had permission for an autumn reconnaissance in 1972 to be followed by a spring attempt in 1973. Owing to sickness he gave up his autumn slot.
1974 Guardian 26 Mar. 14/1 Welland's script was accepted by the BBC for its ‘Play For Today’ slot.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 24 Apr. 19 a/3 Stanford has 10,009 applications for 1,450 freshman slots next fall.
1976 A. Davis Television viii. 86 Suitable slots are normally of 90 to 120 minutes, with time for commercials to be taken out of this, but films are rarely obliging enough to run to exactly the length required.
1977 Film & Television Technician Mar. 6/4 The British programme-makers are actually pushing the Americans out of the number one slot in key Western Europe and Scandinavian countries.
1977 Times 25 Aug. 1/8 The importance of taking a flight ‘slot’ when it comes up.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xii. 131 After six months of free-lance work he offered me a magazine editor slot.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 529/2 Many place Kokoschka in the slot ‘Expressionist’.
b. spec. in Linguistics (see quot. 19601). Also attributive and in other combinations.
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1957 K. L. Pike in General Linguistics Spring 36 The characteristics of a grammeme which in many instances are perhaps most readily recognized in current descriptions of a grammemic system are the functional slot with its class filler.
1959 W. H. Mittins in Quirk & Smith Teaching of English iv. 116 Some teachers..seek to achieve a kind of concentration and continuity by methodically working through batteries of vocabulary exercises in slot-filling..and the like.
1959 Amer. Speech 34 266 The core contrasts..can also be reached by way of the diaphonemic pattern, but a smaller set will emerge because of the phonetic integrity that is built into the diaphoneme. The criterion for assigning diaphonemically different entities to a single slot in the phonemic inventory is dialectal complementation among the contrasts.
1960 Elson & Pickett Beginning Morphol.-syntax ii. 16 A slot is a grammatical position or function (e.g. subject) which is filled by a list of mutually substitutable items (e.g. nouns). The tagmeme is the unit of grammatical arrangement involved in or resulting from this slot-class correlation.
1960 Elson & Pickett Beginning Morphol.-syntax ii. 37 Make a chart with the slot names.., listing fillers below each slot name.
1960 Elson & Pickett Beginning Morphol.-syntax iii. 40 As a filler class they can only be united by some such term as ‘subject slot fillers’.
1962 W. A. Stewart in F. A. Rice Study of Role of Second Languages in Asia, Africa, & Latin Amer. 21 Under various conditions, the same language may occupy more than one functional slot.
1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iii. 44 But the basic points of the slot-symbol and class-symbol description and the lack of context-sensitive rules remain untouched.
1964 Language 40 314 American slot-and-filler grammatical description.
1965 Word Study Feb. 3/1 Word groups filling noun slots and verb slots comprise the chief building blocks of utterances.
1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. 25 When, through cross-cultural experience, speakers of one language are conscious of an ‘empty slot’ in their language which is filled in another language.., they may..fill the gap by borrowing the filler.
1972 Archivum Linguisticum 3 22 The lexical co-occurrence restrictions which hold between the fillers of predicate and subject slots are different from the restrictions which hold between the fillers of predicate and instrument slots.
1972 Computers & Humanities 7 14 Some recent publications include..‘Computerized Japanese Haiku’, which describes how the poems are created by slot-filling.
1972 M. L. Samuels Linguistic Evol. 65 A new slot-filler may arise from borrowing or creation, or the ‘pull’ of the empty slot may hasten a new process of extension in another existing word.
1981 Word 1980 31 230 He makes use of the slot-and-filler infrastructure, characteristic of tagmemics.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense 2.)
a.
slot-arm n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 392/2 As the slot-arm [in a lathe] oscillates, it gives a reciprocating motion to the shaping slide.
slot-bar n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 331 The slot-bar..is for the purpose of adjusting the length of the fourth foot of the machine to any inequalities of the barn~floor.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.J 2 The bottom of the slot bar is arranged with a capped bearing.
slot-bearing n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1109 The spindles with their bobbins revolve in two slot-bearings.
slot head n.
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1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.J 2 These carriages and slot heads are quite independent of each other in all their motions.
slot hole n.
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1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 244 For boryng of ij. slott holes in a bote stake.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.H 9 The tools are fixed..in square slot holes.
slot hoop n.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Slot-hoop, the same as truss-hoops.
slot lever n.
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1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 167 The axis..of the slot-lever.
slot link n.
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 285 The slot link..of an engine, which, through the medium of the eccentrics, alters the valve for forward or backward motion.
slot piece n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 119 The slot-piece b adjusts the roller a, and a similar slot-piece..adjusts the roller b.
slot rail n.
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1891 Daily News 28 Dec. 3/1 In the concrete..are embedded at intervals cast iron tube frames, to which the slot rails are bolted.
slot way n.
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1892 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing 108 What is the object of the slotway in the upper part of the ram?
b.
slot-wedge n. (see quot. ?1523 at sense 2a).
C2.
a.
slot-borer n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 823/2 Slot Borer, a tool used for opening the cut in connection with slotting machines.
slot-boring adj.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 823/2 Slot-boring Machine.
slot-drilling adj.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2215/1 Slot-drilling Machine.
slot-headed adj.
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1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 169 Crank and Slot~headed Sliding Rod.
b. Special combinations.
slot aerial n. an aerial in the form of one or more slots in a metal surface.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 626/1 It would appear that slot aerials are capable of making a contribution to the problem of designing a radiating element that produces circular polarization in all directions of radiation.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 56 To keep staff up to date, training supplements on such items as slot aerials, television lighting, frequency modulation, and other developments are issued.
slot antenna n. = slot aerial n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 749/2 In spite of the length of the slot antenna, this load can be treated as lumped at the position of the centre of the slot.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xviii. 43 Very low profile slot antennas utilizing shallow cavities fed by coaxial cables have been designed for aircraft use.
slot-back n. American Football (the position of) a back who stands behind a gap in the forward line.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player
side tackle1809
nose guard1852
rusher1877
goalkicker1879
quarterback1879
runner1880
quarter1883
full back1884
left guard1884
snap-back1887
snapper-back1887
running back1891
tackle1891
defensive end1897
guard1897
interferer1897
receiver1897
defensive back1898
defensive tackle1900
safety man1901
ball carrier1902
defensive lineman1902
homebrew1903
offensive lineman1905
lineman1907
returner1911
signal caller1915
rover1916
interference1920
punt returner1926
pass rusher1928
tailback1930
safety1931
blocker1935
faker1938
scatback1946
linesman1947
flanker1953
platoon player1953
corner-back1955
pulling guard1955
split end1955
return man1957
slot-back1959
strong safety1959
wide receiver1960
line-backer1961
pocket passer1963
tight end1963
run blocker1967
wideout1967
blitzer1968
1959 Washington Post 21 Nov. A14/4 He helped develop Elroy (Crazy~legs) Hirsch into a slotback with the Los Angeles Rams.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 18/2 Slotback Dick Smith took a 12-yard pass from Sonny Wade in the second quarter for one Montreal touchdown.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 24 Apr. 5 b/1 At slot back..Rut Livingston..has the makings of a great player.
slot car n. a miniature racing car, powered by electricity, which travels in a slot in a track.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy model car
minicar1948
Dinky car1950
Dinky toy1950
matchbox1954
slot car1966
slot racer1966
1966 Maclean's 22 Jan. 9 a The track on which slot cars race is a tabletop affair.
1971 Publishers' Weekly 27 Sept. 129/3 (advt.) The New Zealand Boys' Book of Crafts, Pets, Sports and Hobbies by Anthony Harvey and Peter Snell provides information on..model-making, rugby, sailing, slot cars, and wood-carving.
slot-machine n. a machine which is operated by inserting a coin in a slot; also figurative and attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > coin-operated
automatic machine1808
slot-machine1891
automat1895
penny-in-the-slot1922
slot1950
coin-op1960
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > coin-operated
penny-in-the-slot1889
slot-machine1891
quarter-in-the-slot1903
coin-in-the-slot1904
coin-operated1960
1891 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Index July–Dec. 155/2 Slot machine.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 1/3 An ostrich's stomach is not filled with mechanism like a slot machine's.
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1912) 196 Mac McGowan was to..drop his silver talent into the slit of the slot-machine of fame and fortune that gives up reputation and dough.
1929 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 1/6 ‘Spike’ O'Donnell,..beer baron and bootlegger,..is acting as his own lawyer in the ‘slot machine’ trial.
1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 12 Eating chocolate creams from the slot-machines.
1957 Observer 1 Sept. 13/4 At Las Vegas the plane empties of passengers who, with cold passion, play the slot-machines in the concourse until ten minutes later, when it is time to go.
1978 J. Wainwright Jury People lxiv. 216 A slot-machine arcade. One of these pin-table places.
slot man n. U.S. slang a newspaper's chief sub-editor, a news editor.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > sub-editor
sub-editor1811
sub1822
rim man1923
slot man1928
1928 Amer. Speech 4 134 Presiding over the copy readers is the ‘head of the desk’ or ‘slot man’. His chief duty is to judge the amount of space to be given any ‘story’ or news article and to designate the size of the ‘headline’ or ‘head’.
1972 H. Evans Editing & Design: Newsman's Eng. i. 8 The copy is normally passed to a third executive, the ‘revise editor’. On American dailies he is a ‘slot man’.
slot-meter n. a meter which is operated by inserting a coin in a slot.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > instrument measuring or recording automatically > specific
gas meter1815
wet meterc1865
slot-meter1899
motor meter1903
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for > specific
meter1832
time stamp1855
telemeter1877
tape recorder1892
slot-meter1899
motor meter1903
check meter1909
Recordak1928
Thermo-Fax1953
ultramicrofiche1967
ultrafiche1971
electronic tag1980
1899 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 2/2 A reduction of 2d. per thousand to those using the slot meter.
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slot-race v. (intransitive) .
slot racer n. = slot car n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy model car
minicar1948
Dinky car1950
Dinky toy1950
matchbox1954
slot car1966
slot racer1966
1966 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 4 Feb. 13 (caption) J. P. Evans.. and Ed Johnson get ready to put their slot racers through a gruelling five-lap race.
slot-racing n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others
buckle-pit1532
marrowbone1533
put-pin?1577
primus secundus1584
fox in the hole1585
haltering of Hick's mare1585
muss1591
pushpin1598
Jack-in-the-box1600
a penny in the forehead1602
buckerels1649
bumdockdousse1653
peck-point1653
toro1660
wheelbarrow1740
thread-needle1751
thrush-a-thrush1766
runaway ring?1790
Gregory1801
pick-point1801
fighting cocks1807
runaway knock1813
tit-tat-toe1818
French and English1820
honeypots1821
roly-poly1821
tickle-tail1821
pottle1822
King of Cantland1825
tip-top-castle1834
tile1837
statue1839
chip stone1843
hen and chickens1843
king of the castle1843
King Caesar1849
rap-jacket1870
old witch1881
tick-tack-toe1884
twos and threes1896
last across (the road)1904
step1909
king of the hill1928
Pooh-sticks1928
trick or treat1928
stare-you-out1932
king of the mountain1933
dab cricket1938
Urkey1938
trick-or-treating1941
seven-up1950
squashed tomato1959
slot-racing1965
Pog1993
knights-
1965 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Aug. 22 A rapidly growing number of Americans..have caught the slot-racing bug.
1967 J. Symons Man who killed Himself i. vi. 69 I haven't joined a slot racing club... I like slot racing on my own.
slot radiator n. = slot aerial n.
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1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 748/2 When slot radiators which were very loosely coupled to the guide had to be measured, standing-wave measurements of single slots became unreliable.
1967 IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation 15 826/1 If the boundaries of the dielectric cover are kept within the local reactive fields of the slot, the primary effect upon the radiation is a change in the impedance of the slot radiator.
slot seam n. a clothing seam reinforced underneath; also, = channel seam n. at channel n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > seam > specific
seamc1394
round seam1626
fell1852
run and fell1852
French seam1882
dart1884
overseam1891
French seam1903
slot seam1918
jetting1923
channel seam1931
flat-fell seam1939
channel seaming1948
1918 E. Wallbank & M. Wallbank Dress Cutting & Making x. 69 Slot Seam, in which both edges are overlapped on to a wrap piece or ‘slot’.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 99 Channel Seam (slot seam): to make a channel or slot seam, the seam turnings should be basted together. An additional strip of fabric should be laid under the basted seam and should then be machined approximately half-inch or so away from the basted seam line.
slot television n. a coin-operated television.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1958 Kinematograph Weekly (Studio Rev.) 29 May p. iv/3 If slot television gets a real hold on the public, commercial cinema..is doomed.
1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 26 May 3/8 (advt.) Slot television, bargains galore.
slot winding n. Electrical Engineering an armature winding in which the conductors are laid in slots or grooves in the core.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of
armature1834
shuttle armature1890
shuttle-wound armature1893
slot winding1900
slotted armature1902
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of winding
ring winding1887
lap winding1892
wave winding1892
slot winding1900
barrel winding1902
bar winding1903
1900 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 29 802 A hole-winding produces a somewhat smoother pole than a slot-winding.
1968 D. G. Fink & J. M. Carroll Standard Handbk. Electr. Engineers (ed. 10) vi. 10 Fractional slot windings, where the number of slots per phase per pole is not an integer, have unequal coil groups.
slot-wound adj.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [adjective] > parts of
slot-wound1931
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [adjective] > type of
shunt-wound1883
flat-ring1884
bar-wound1902
former-wound1902
slot-wound1931
1931 L. B. Turner Wireless xiv. 471 The calculation of E.M.F. in a slot-wound dynamo.
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Motor Rallying. A turning or other opening, esp. one marked for the driver to take. slang.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > race testing car quality, skill, etc. > turning or opening for driver
slot1963
1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 35 Slot, entrance to a road. Wrong-slot, quite simply—taking the wrong road.
1987 Rally Sport Jan. 87/3 [They] missed a slot in the village of Tegryn and were close to PC9 before realising their mistake.
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Ice Hockey. An unmarked area in front of the goal affording the best position for an attacking player to make a successful shot at goal.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > playing area > area in front of goal > affording best position for shot at goal
slot1967
1967 Maple Leaf Gardens Mag. 15 Mar. 59/1 Note the centreman is in the white section in this diagram. In hockey this area is termed the ‘slot’. More goals are scored from here than anywhere else.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 41/3 The Marlie forwards sped into the slot on the least excuse to take a swipe at the puck that Hawk defenders left in front of their netminder.
1980 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. b9/1 Lying on his side, he poked the puck to Cashman in the slot.
1986 New Yorker 31 Mar. 21/2 Our goalie was subjected to..slap shot after slap shot raining in from the blue line, the slot.
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Computing. Any elongated, more or less rectangular socket; spec. = expansion slot n. at expansion n. Additions.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > expansion slot
slot1978
expansion slot1980
1978 Pract. Computing July 4 The chassis..has three additional slots for expansion boards.
1982 F. J. Galland Dict. Computing 30 Cage, a group of slots with electrical connectors used to hold replaceable printed circuit boards in a functional unit.
1983 Practical Computing Nov. 97 (caption) Softward ROMs up to 16K can be plugged into a slot above the keyboard.
1988 Which? Nov. 527/1 Computers with more slots are more versatile.
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slotn.3
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/ 1. The track or trail of an animal, esp. a deer, as shown by the marks of the foot; sometimes misapplied to the scent of an animal; hence generally, track, trace, or trail.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > trail > [noun]
feutea1375
treadc1400
fewea1425
racka1467
train1568
foiling1575
slot1575
trail1590
fuse1611
piste1696
spoor1823
sign1851
slotting1909
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > footprint or track
racka1467
ports and entries1575
slot1575
strain1612
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xiv. 36 Take your Bloudhoundes and with them finde out the view or Slotte of the Harte or Bucke.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 17v To dogge them a little,..and so discouer by slotte where the deare taketh soyle.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 216 The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaues..Where he hath gone to lodge.
a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. ii. 12 in Wks. (1640) III By his Slot,..His Frayings, Fewmets, he doth promise sport. View more context for this quotation
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. iv, in Comedies & Trag. 146 If he had had as much hoof as horn, you might have hunted the beast by his slot[printed slat; 1827 Dodsley slot].
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 472 See here his Slot; up yon green Hill he climbs.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 7 They were called..Slothe hounds, from their following the slot or track of men or cattle.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xi. 283 The Deer Hath left his slot beside the way.
1865 C. Boner Transylvania 154 The slot of the bear is quite like that of a human being.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 161 We found in the sand where an hyena had lately passed: Sâlih asked if I knew the slot.
2. A deer's foot.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > foot or claw
gard1575
guard1575
slot1876
1876 World I. No. 121. 15 As to what is the correct name of a deer's foot,..I never heard it called anything but ‘slot’.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/2 Another spoil of the chase of the wild red deer is the foot or ‘slot’, as it is called, and these slots may be found serving as bell-pulls, or even as door~knockers and ink-stands.
Compounds
slotwise adv.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [adverb] > in the way of following a track
slotwise1866
1866 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads 24 And tracking ever slotwise the warm smell Is snapped upon by the sweet mouth.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 126 Following the track (slotwise) at dawn of day.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† slotn.4
Obsolete. rare.
A muddy place; mud.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough
sloughc900
mooreOE
letch1138
mire1219
sougha1300
dew1377
slop?a1400
flashc1440
slothc1440
slonk1488
slot?a1500
rilling1610
slab1610
water-gall1657
slunkc1700
slack1719
mudhole1721
bog-hole1788
spew1794
wetness1805
stabble1821
slob1836
sludge1839
soak1839
mudbath1856
squire-trap1859
loblolly1865
glue-pot1892
swelter1894
poaching1920
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun]
laira1340
fanc1340
mudc1400
slutchc1400
slikec1425
slipc1440
slobber1440
sorec1440
slot?a1500
glar?a1513
slubber1570
slab1622
lute1694
lutulence1727
sletch1743
sleek1774
slakec1800
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 798 Hoc volutabrum, a selot [sic].
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 797 Hic linus [= limus], a sclott.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
† slotn.5
Obsolete. rare.
A castle.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun]
castlea1075
stronghousec1325
motec1390
house of fencec1425
castle of war1441
slot1578
house of war1581
kasbah1738
castellation1858
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun] > castle used as residence
castlea1075
(castle) of lodgingsc1515
slot1578
schloss1662
1578 B. Rich Allarme to Eng. To Rdr. Thou paydst for building of a slot, that wrought thine owne decay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
slotv.1
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/ Now dialect.
1.
a. transitive. To bolt (a door).The entry in Johnson (1755) ‘To Slot, v.a. (slughen, Dutch), to strike or clash hard’ is probably an echo (through Bailey) of Skinner, who connects the word with Dutch sluyten.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close (a door, window, etc.) > bolt, bar, or lock
sparc1175
pena1200
louka1225
bara1300
shutc1320
lockc1325
clicketc1390
keyc1390
pinc1390
sneckc1440
belocka1450
spare?c1450
latch1530
to lock up1549
slot1563
bolt1574
to lock to?1575
double-lock1594
stang1598
obserate1623
padlock1722
button1741
snib1808
chain1839
1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 139 Ȝour scoleris..hes in thare imaginatioun cloisit vp, slotit, and neidnalit the samin ȝettis of our hæretage.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ To Slot a door, vox agro Linc. usitatissima, (i.e.) januam claudere.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 43 To Slot a door, Lincoln, i.e. to shut it.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. To slot a door, to shut it hastily, or in a passion.]
1811 H. Macneill Bygane Times 18 Whan they see The door, tho' slotted, budge a wee.
b. (See quot. 1695.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > a door, gate, etc. > unlock, unbolt, etc. > draw (a bolt)
drawa1500
slot1695
undraw1791
unslip1892
shoot1894
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Slade In the South to slot a lock is to thrust it back.
2. To secure (a lock) by shooting a bolt.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close (a door, window, etc.) > bolt, bar, or lock > slide bar or bolt into fastening > secure a lock by
slot1904
1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xxi. 318 He found that his skeleton-key would open the lock, even when ‘on the double’ or slotted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slotv.2
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure specific part
to shave (a person's) crown14..
slot?a1400
paunch1530
tuckc1640
shin1819
spine1888
whiplash1971
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon
prickOE
pritchOE
snese?c1225
threstc1275
stokea1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
broach1377
foinc1380
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
slot?a1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
to run in1509
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
accloy1543
push1551
stoga1572
poacha1616
stocka1640
stoccado1677
stug1722
kittle1820
skewer1837
pitchfork1854
poke1866
chib1973
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3853 He schokkes owtte a schorte knyfe.., And scholde haue slottede hyme in, bot no slytte happenede.
2.
a. To cut a slot or slots in; to furnish with a slot. Also with out.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]
snithec725
carvec1000
cutc1275
slitc1275
hag1294
ritc1300
chop1362
slash1382
cut and carvea1398
flash?a1400
flish?a1400
slenda1400
race?a1425
raise?a1425
razea1425
scotch?c1425
ochec1440
slitec1450
ranch?a1525
scorchc1550
scalp1552
mincea1560
rash?1565
beslash1581
fent1589
engrave1590
nick1592
snip1593
carbonado1596
rescide1598
skice1600
entail1601
chip1609
wriggle1612
insecate1623
carbonate1629
carbonade1634
insecta1652
flick1676
sneg1718
snick1728
slot1747
sneck1817
tame1847
bite-
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > make (a) slot(s) in
slot1747
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Qiij The Sliders are Slotted at both Ends to receive the Forks.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.J 2 This machine is intended to slot the sides of connecting rods.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.J 4 The tool holder, X, is provided with a circular motion..for slotting out curves.
1892 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing 54 After it is turned, planed, and bored it is slotted across.
b. Coal Mining. To hole.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227.
3. To drop (a coin) through a slot in a slot-machine.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into a socket or slot > in a slot-machine
slot1888
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 5/1 All the would-be purchasers who have carelessly slotted their pence.
4. To thread (material etc.) with (ribbon).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > trim > with ribbon or braid > thread with
run1699
slot1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 335 She had four dinky sets,..each set slotted with different coloured ribbons.
1975 G. Howell In Vogue 243 The flowerpot hat..in coffee cream satin slotted with a brown ribbon.
5. intransitive.
a. To admit of being threaded through a hole or slot.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > admit of being passed through a slot
slot1928
1928 Daily Express 9 Jan. 13 The unique collar slots through the buckle.
b. figurative. To fit in or into; to take up a position in a space or slot (slot n.2 6).
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert [verb (intransitive)] > be inserted into a slot
slot1940
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood i. i. 40 We are not the people we were yesterday. We slot into the new order.
1965 New Statesman 7 May 715/1 Personally I never knew yet quite what I was nor where I slotted in; I suppose I was ready for total identification somewhere, but never where I happened to be.
1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xx. 187 I..watched the police-car slot in between us and the car ahead; then it pulled out and one lost it.
1971 Daily Tel. 9 June 2/4 Initially the trains will operate at a maximum 125 mph to ‘slot in’ with new-type conventional diesels.
1976 Times 15 Apr. 27/1 The French company augments its range in Britain with the GTL, which slots in between the 956cc TL and the high-performance TS.
1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 19/1 They produced a great team display with new boy Henshaw slotting in well.
1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xiii. 149 There are quite a few details which haven't slotted into position yet, but..the outline's right.
6. transitive.
a. To fit (something) in or into a position, space, or slot (slot n.2 6).
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into a socket or slot
socket1533
lodge1726
slot1966
1966 A. Battersby Math. in Managem. viii. 211 Certain complex calculations..are available in a form which can be readily ‘slotted in’ to bigger programs.
1968 Listener 4 Jan. 27/1 The television slotting system..separates programmes into categories... But slotting also creates a climate in which surprise is unwelcome... Slotted into one of the arts programme times the Beatles' film would hardly have raised a whisper.
1970 O. Norton Dead on Prediction i. 14 I..managed to slot the Mini into the corner of the temporary car park.
1971 Country Life 8 Apr. 801/1 The richly Italianate facade of the Finsbury Bank for Savings..was slotted into the terrace in 1840.
1972 M. Williams Inside Number 10 xiii. 339 The National Agent went to great pains to slot this function into the election tour.
1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/4 Steady progress up the scale leads to a salary of £3638. It is inconceivable that the Bishop of Bath and Wells..would be slotted in at the minimum.
1977 C. Dexter Silent World N. Quinn viii. 71 He slotted the book back into its shelf.
1977 Irish Times 8 June 8/4 Why, for instance, wasn't Sile de Valera slotted into this constituency once Vivion de Valera stood down?
b. spec. in Association Football. To kick (the ball, a pass) accurately through a narrow space, esp. in or into the goal; to score (a goal) in this way. Also absol.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > play football [verb (transitive)] > actions or manoeuvres
place-kick1845
punt1845
dribble1863
head1871
tackle1884
mark1887
foot1900
boot1914
rumble1954
late-tackle1957
dummy1958
crash-tackle1960
to pick up1961
nod1965
slot1970
welly1986
1970 F. C. Avis Soccer Ref. Dict. (ed. 3) 86 Slot in, to pass, or to score a goal, by the very skilful placing of the ball through a narrow gap between players.
1974 Observer 1 Sept. 18/4 Boersma hardly needed to leave the ground to slot his..header into the net.
1975 Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 1 Feb. 1/4 United took the lead through Jones who slotted home.
1975 Evening News (Edinb.) 15 Mar. (Sports Final ed.) 10/2 McDowell slotted the ball into the net.
1977 Wandsworth Borough News 7 Oct. 10/1 He beat Newton, centre-half Robinson and goalkeeper Stevenson before slotting the ball in.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 5/3 The home team were showing good touches and Hargreaves slotted in a third goal after Barker had sent a good shot screaming goalwards.
Draft additions 1993
c. To kill or injure (a person) by shooting. Army slang.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting
shootc893
shootc1275
to blow away1523
carry1653
to shoot (a person) down1845
stop1845
blow1871
ventilate1875
Maxim1894
poop1917
to blow apart1920
smoke1926
clip1927
cowboy1941
zap1942
Sten-gun1949
to light up1967
slot1987
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile
shootc893
shoot1297
feather1415
to shoot (a person, thing) through1535
daga1572
pistol1598
lace1622
to shoot‥through and througha1648
pink1661
pop1762
plump1785
wing1802
drill1808
rifle1821
leg1829
hole1847
shot1855
blunderbuss1870
riddle1874
pip1900
slot1987
1987 New Breed Sept. 58/3 During the Rhodesian conflict..‘troopies’ on external raids into Frelimo territory (Mozambique) regularly sought (and found) bayonets on the bodies of those they ‘slotted’.
1989 Times 27 July 3/5 If you can't get a good conviction then you get someone slotted (slang for shot).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slotv.3
/slɒt/, U.S. /slɑt/ transitive. To trace by the slot; to follow the track of (a stag, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > to track
slot1582
spoor1850
pad1861
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 6 Three stags sturdye wer vnder Neere the seacost gating, theym slot thee clusterus heerdflock.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Hart If the Way is too hard to slot, be sure to try far enough back.
1838 Sporting Mag. Aug. 342 The hounds could own no such thing, neither could the knowing ones ‘slot’ the animal.
1884 Longman's Mag. 4 489 The ground may be so wet..that it is impossible to ‘slot’ a deer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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