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Definition of Slattered
1. slatter [v] - See also: slatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slattered
Literary usage of Slattered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"To waste, throw away, said of money spent with nothing to show for it: " It's
been slattered away ;" " It's better in the Bank ..."
2. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century by Leopold von Ranke (1875)
"He would rather have maintained his position ; in the Committee however the others
1 Hodgson : ' a poor, slattered, hungry, discouraged army. ..."
3. A Book about Roses: How to Grow and Show Them by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1900)
"... wide-mouthed waddling charioteer, and am pained at heart to find the precious
commodity fallen, or, as they say in Lancashire,' slattered,' on the road. ..."
4. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, Etc by Thomas Percy, Edward Walford (1887)
"Slade, a breadth of greensward. Slated, slatted, S., whetted or wiped. Slattered,
slit, broke into splinters. Sle, slee, sley, sla, ..."
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