Sentence examples for slat from inspiring English sources

Leading-edge slots, which can be either fixed or deployable, are spanwise apertures that permit air to flow through a point behind the leading edge and, like the slat, are designed to smooth out the airflow over the wing at higher angles of attack.

The top slat, which even in simple types was usually larger than the others and was sometimes pierced for ease of handling, became richly ornamented.

Thus, moldboards are divided into several different classes, including stubble, general-purpose, general-purpose for clay and stiff-sod soil, slat, blackland, and chilled general-purpose.

The x-ray also revealed a wooden slat, which the artist affixed after he painted one of the flowers too close to the top of the canvas.

The sternpost was a high vertical slat with openwork scrolls and a small figure seated at the foot.

Old-style cribs for unshelled corn, usually made of wood, have open or slat construction to ensure ventilation by the wind.

Around the railway station in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is a collection of wooden-slat houses built in the early 20th century.

In Buenaventura, the country's second biggest container port, huge ships sail past wood-slat houses where taps flow for three hours a day at most, children are ill-fed and violence is rife.

In 1898 the washing machine industry began there with the manufacture of ratchet-slat washers.

The other friend said that a kind of slat-backed garden seat used at Chatsworth (the principal seat of the Devonshires) is available in the English marketplace.

After Mackinnon had eaten, he crawled into his slat-and-bearskin bed, where it was his habit to drink himself to sleep.