Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A momentary lull between breaking waves, favorable for launching a boat.
  • noun A lull in a high windstorm.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical:
  • noun The slack of a rope.
  • noun A short gleam of fine weather.
  • noun A brief, passing breeze.
  • To dabble in mire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The period of a transitory breeze.
  • noun An interval of fair weather.
  • noun The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The period of a transitory breeze.
  • noun An interval of good weather.
  • noun nautical The loose part of a rope; slack.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of slack.]

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See slack.

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  • The lull between storms or a brief pause in a windstorm.

    December 8, 2006

  • "Slatch, the period of transitory breeze of wind, or the length of its duration."

    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 484

    October 13, 2008