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noun

Slot n.

A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.

A bolt or bar for fastening a door. (Prov. Eng.)

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

Slot n. The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. "As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer."

verb

Slot v. t. To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Slot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slot" Quotes from Famous Books

... about 1815. Received from Division of Ethnology in 1931. A Carey plow with a slot in the beam for a colter. The landside handle passes through the beam. Usually, the beam tenon passes through a mortise in the handle. Possibly made by the farmer. Replication of a common and popular American plow of the 18th century. ...

— Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology • John T. Schlebecker

... dame came back at twelve, when school was over, to look at Tom: but there was no Tom there. She looked about for his footprints; but the ground was so hard that there was no slot, as they say in dear old North Devon. And if you grow up to be a brave healthy man, you may know some day what no slot means, and know too, I hope, what a slot does mean—a broad slot, with blunt ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... took the two tabs and walked to the rear of the patrol car. He slid back a panel to reveal two thin slots in the hull. Martin slid the driver's license into one of the slots, the registration tab into the other. He pressed a button below each slot. Inside the car, a magnetic reader and auto-transmitter "scanned" the magnetic symbols implanted in the tags. The information was fed instantly to Continental Headquarters Records division at Colorado Springs. ...

— Code Three • Rick Raphael

... pennies in the slot. Gold, pink and violet lights start forth. The drum turns purring in low hesitation waltz. Professor Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress, wearing a stained inverness cape, bent in two from incredible ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... all the work is the cutting of the slots in which the springs are put. These are first cut by a machine; but if the man who operates it is not careful, he will get some of his fingers cut off. But after the slot-cutting machine does its work, there is yet something to be done by another man with a knife before the spring can be put in. After the springs are set, the ferule is put on, and when natural sticks are used, as all are of different sizes, it requires considerable time and care to find a ...

— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous

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