slater

See also: Slater

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
2. (Scotland, Australia, New Zealand) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
   • 1901, The Critic, volume 39, page 562:

     Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.

Derived terms

• sea slater (Ligia oceanica)

Translations

one who lays slate

• Finnish: liuskekiven asentaja
• French: couvreur (fr) m
• German: Schieferdecker m
• Luxembourgish: Leeëndecker m
• Spanish: pizarrero (es) m
• Welsh: töwr

invertebrate — see woodlouse

See also

• butcher boy
• sowbug
• woodlouse
• roly-poly
• sai bug
• saisai gnat

Anagrams

• Laster, ratels, alters, stelar, Tarsle, talers, streal, staler, estral, alerts, tarsel, resalt, Salter, tralse, strale, laster, Trelas, laters, artels, salter

Scots

Alternative forms

• slatter, slettar, sclater
• (Orkney) slatero, slateroo, slateo, slaterick

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsletər]

Noun

slater (plural slaters)

1. woodlouse