slat¹

n.

板條；百葉板；梯級橫木；（椅背上的）橫木[C]
The house was covered with slats of tiles.
這所房子是用板條瓦蓋的。
【俚】肋骨；屁股[P]

vt.

slat²

vi.

（帆在風中）拍打
The main sail was blowing and slatting with a noise like thunder.
主帆在風中吹動拍打，發出雷鳴般的響聲。

vt.

n.

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

n.

a thin, narrow piece of wood or other material, especially one of a series which overlap or fit into each other, as in a Venetian blind.

ME (in the sense ‘roofing slate’): shortening of OFr. esclat ‘splinter’.

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》