Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To construct or provide with slats. · To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently. · To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down. · To fall; to beat (against something).
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic. · A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed. · A ski. · A thin piece of stone; a slate.
From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.
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