sloat

See slot (“a bar”).

sloat (plural sloats)

1. A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.

   the sloats of a cart

   sloats in a theatre

• “sloat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Altos, stola, tolas, Tolas, altos, lotas, Salto, lotsa, salto, Toals, Slota

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sloat (verbal noun sloateil)

1. abate (of rain)