slat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A narrow strip of metal or wood, as in a Venetian blind.
2. n. A movable auxiliary airfoil running along the leading edge of the wing of an airplane.
3. n. Slang The ribs.
4. v. To provide or make with slats: slatting the back of a chair.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw or cast down violently or carelessly; jerk.
2. To strike; knock; beat; bang.
3. To flap violently, as the sails when blown adrift in a violent wind, or when in a calm the motion of the ship strikes them against the masts and rigging.
4. n. A sudden flap or slap; a sharp blow or stroke.
5. n. A spot; stain.
6. n. A spent salmon, or one that has spawned.
7. Same as slate.
8. To split; crack.
9. n. A thin flat stone, or piece of stone, especially a piece of slate; a slate; a stone tile. See slate.
10. n. A thin slab or veneer of stone sometimes used to face rougher stonework or brickwork.
11. n. A long narrow strip or slip of wood. Specifically— A strip of wood used to fasten together larger pieces, as on a crate, etc.
12. n. In carriage-building, one of the thin strips of wood or iron used to form the ribs of the top or canopy of a buggy, carryall, or rockaway, or to form the bottom of a wagonbody.
13. n. One of the radial strips used in forming the bottom of a wicker basket.
14. n. plural Dark-blue ooze, rather hard, left dry by the ebb of the sea.
15. Made of slats.
16. An abbreviation of south latitude.
17. n. A green sheepskin, with the wool removed, which has been dried in the sun.

Wiktionary

1. n. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal.
2. n. A moveable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight.
3. v. To construct or provide with slats.
4. v. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
5. v. UK, dialect To split; to crack.
6. v. To set on; to incite.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal.
2. v. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
3. v. Prov. Eng. To split; to crack.
4. v. Prov. Eng. To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. close the slats of (windows)
2. v. equip or bar with slats
3. n. a thin strip (wood or metal)