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slater

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +? -er.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?sle?t?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sle?t?/
  • Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

  1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
  3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
    • 1901, The Critic (volume 39, page 562)
      Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.

Translations

See also

  • butcher boy
  • sowbug
  • woodlouse
  • sai bug
  • saisai gnat

Anagrams

  • Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

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slates

English

Noun

slates

  1. plural of slate

Verb

slates

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slate

Anagrams

  • astels, leasts, salets, stales, steals, stelas, tassel, teslas

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