Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. New England A momentary lull between breaking waves, favorable for launching a boat.
- n. New England A lull in a high windstorm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical:
- n. The slack of a rope.
- n. A short gleam of fine weather.
- n. A brief, passing breeze.
- To dabble in mire.
Wiktionary
- n. The period of a transitory breeze.
- n. An interval of good weather.
- n. nautical The loose part of a rope; slack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The period of a transitory breeze.
- n. An interval of fair weather.
- n. The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
Etymologies
- See slack. (Wiktionary)
- Variant of slack1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Labels: action alert, DARE, dictionaries, Dictionary of American Regional English, Jesse Sheidlower, slatch, sleighty, tally-lagger posted by John McGrath @ 11: 15 PM 1 Comments”
“Labels: action alert, DARE, dictionaries, Dictionary of American Regional English, Jesse Sheidlower, slatch, sleighty, tally-lagger posted by John McGrath @ 11: 15 PM”
Wordie Action Alert: Dictionary of American Regional English
“Spinning, you had to pick slatch, you had to write back guides, and you had to set in roing, and you had to write roing, clean out in there where it was at, so many things you had to do.”
“Or the challenged ship, believing herself to be the faster craft of the two, clapped on all sail, caught an opportune "slatch of wind," and showed her pursuer a clean pair of heels, the tender's guns meanwhile barking away at her until she passed out of range.”
“You may ride in your quiet road-stead on the other side with all your ships, till God send us that long-wished-for westerly wind, unless you get a _slatch_ of wind to carry one of your ships to the _bab_, to see if all be well there, and so return back to you.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slatch’.
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
-
spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
-
It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
-
When I'm Feeling Windy
wiiiiiiiind
sirocco, zephyr, fiat, tramontana, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, haboob, khamsin, aajej, africo, alm and 125 more...
-
thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
-
Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
-
Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
-
Localisms, don'cha know?
Welcome to Minnesota!
these are things i've overheard locally in others' casual conversations. words that you wouldn't expect to hear in this area, but that i have heard utterred out loud. in...spendy, lemonass, anal-snapping, fucktard, blam, cro-magnon, banshee, kook, atwitter, facetious, bruhaha, brouhaha and 13 more...
-
Learned via Wordie
cruft, puissance, ischemia, spondulicks, dikdik, sibilant, gallimaufry, djembe, interstice, slatch, cantilever, nadir and 22 more...
-
I do not think it means what you thin...
incipient, innocuous, bellicose, inflammable, belie, borborygmus, crepuscule, slatch, comprise, salubrious, pulchritude, gormless and 4 more...
-
The Mariner's Record
quay, gunwale, bosun, starboard, larboard, by and large, offing, scuttle, scuttlebutt, longshoreman, sextant, windfall and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for slatch.
chained_bear "Slatch, the period of transitory breeze of wind, or the length of its duration."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 484 Oct 13, 2008
whatever1013 The lull between storms or a brief pause in a windstorm. Dec 8, 2006