slater
/ˈsleɪtə
/noun
1A person who slates roofs for a living.Tony stared off in the building trade and quickly settled into work as a roof slater....
- There Naismith worked, as best he could given his poor health, as a plasterer and slater.
- Sangster, a retired slater, added: ‘The girl at the stonemason's yard was a bit taken aback when I told her the stone was for me.’
2A woodlouse or similar isopod crustacean.
- Several species in the order Isopoda. See also sea slater.
- I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies (crinoids, a group of echinoderms related to starfishes).
- Visitors have viewed many types of spiders, beetles and slaters under bright lights and microscopes.
Rhymes
- warm-blooded
- warm-bloodedness
- warm down
- warmed-over
- warmed-up
- war memorial
- warmer
- warm front
- warm fuzzy (or warm and fuzzy)
- warm-hearted
- warm-heartedly
- warm-heartedness
- warming pan
- warmish
- warmist
- warmly
- warmness
- warmonger
- warmongering
- warm salad
- warm something up (or over)
- Warm Springs
- warmth
- warm the cockles of one's heart
- warm to/towards (or warm up to/towards)