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Slate is slang for beat or thrash severely. Slate is slang for criticise severely.
Abuse, quarrel.
Traditionally, at the helm, the watch keeper would record details of speed, distances, headings, etc. on a slate. At the beginning of a new watch the slate would be wiped clean.
Later. See you Christian Slater.
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Vrb phrs. To be a little insane.
Slightly deranged. Also "slate loose."
Adv. Later. Rhyming slang on Oscar Slater. [Glasgow use]
Away for slates is Irish slang for on the way to success.
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Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash
Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. Following her early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate
SLATE, a pioneer organization of the New Left and precursor of the Free Speech Movement and formative counterculture era, was a campus political party
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former New Republic editor
Look up slate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slate is a type of rock, often used for roofing. Slate may also refer to: Slate, Kansas, a ghost town
The Slate, or Blue Slate, is a breed of domestic turkey known for the slate gray color of its plumage. Lighter birds are sometimes called Lavender turkeys
The Slate Group, legally The Slate Group, LLC, is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by Graham Holdings Company. Among the publications
Look up clean slate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clean Slate may refer to: Clean Slate (1994 film) Clean Slate (TV series) "Clean Slate" (Kim Possible)
Look up blank slate or blank slates in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blank slate is the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born
Slate Islands may refer to: Slate Islands, Scotland, in the council area of Argyll and Bute Slate Islands (Ontario), Canada Slate Islands (Alaska), United
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One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
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To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
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A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
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The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.
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Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.
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To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
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A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
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Of a slate color.
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Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
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Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.
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A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
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A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
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Clay slate; argillaceous schist.
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Of a dark gray, like slate.
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Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
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An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
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A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
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A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
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Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
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