slat

1) A narrow piece of board or timber, used to fasten together large pieces; as, the slats of a cart or chair.--Webster. Mr. Worcester calls it "an American corruption of the word sloat."

TO SLAT

2) A word of uncertain derivation, signifying to throw down with violence.--Toone's Glossary.

Slatted his brains out, then soused him in the briny sea.--Old Play, The Malcontents.

With that, I handed him my axe, and he slatted about the chamber a spell.--Maj. Downing's Letters. p. 200.

Suz alive! but warn't my dander up to hear myself called a flat? down I slat the basket and upsot all the berries.--Lafayette Chronicle.

Aunt Nancy would retire to the kitchen, and, taking up the dipper, would slat round the hot water from a kettte.--N. Y. Com. Adv., May 15, 1846.