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Slatting

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An arrangement of slats.
  2. 2
    The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down.

    "Weakened by the strains of sailing in a severe gale and, no doubt, by the accumulated bangings and endless slattings of the previous year's ocean calms, the top batten had fractured, creating an ineffective and unsightly deep V shape in the top sail panel."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of slat form-of, gerund, participle, present

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