Definitions
close the slats of (windows)
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“slats of a window blind”
“To keep people out, the Nature Conservancy, which owns the cave, has blocked off the entrance with huge iron slats.”
“[…] slats of rain broke upon the surface.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Narrow wooden strip”4 letters
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