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Slot   /slɑt/   Listen
noun
Slot  n.  
1.
A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
2.
A bolt or bar for fastening a door. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
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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"Slot" Quotes from Famous Books



... display. During the flood season the falls are obliterated and skillful boatmen pass over them in safety; while the Dalles, some six or eight miles below, may be passed during low water but are utterly impassable in flood time. At the Dalles the vast river is jammed together into a long, narrow slot of unknown depth cut sheer down in ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... the manufacture of a movable boot heel in two parts, to be adjusted in different positions by means of a single central projection taking into a single slot hole or countersunk part, and secured in position by means of a central screw or pin, whether such projection and hole or countersunk part be square or many sided, and no matter what the shape of these sides, so that the shape of the projection and that of the hole which is ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... to get weighed," said Roger, "because I know I am becoming a shadow studying so hard. I asked Miss Estelle where to go and told her I didn't think the nickel-in-the-slot machines were very ...
— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown
... call came from an automatic pay station in a drug store in town. I have the address. It was one of those telephones where you put your money for the call in a slot." ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
... and his two boys had been looking at the photographs with much interest. "It is a Slot [a palace], and there is good taste throughout. And do you live ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary


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