slats

Investigators are concentrating on a front part of the wing called the slats, which is used to increase lift during take-off and landing.

CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2007 2007

Thin slats of wood of different colors had been set on their sides and arranged to create various geometric patterns.

Uruapan's Waterpark 2001

Thin slats of wood of different colors had been set on their sides and arranged to create various geometric patterns.

Uruapan's Waterpark 2001

The first things we used for shoring up tunnels were slats from the bunk beds.

2nd Lt. Jack Kaplan, USAAF 1944

They were called 'slats', and this grade of iron was known as 'slat iron'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Discovering the captain in the act of kicking a distinguished son of the Fatherland in that fragile section of the human anatomy frequently referred to as the "slats," the second mate had stood a moment, immobile with horror, the while he gazed upon the fearful scene.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

Split boards served as "slats" on which the bedding was spread.

The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

In Evesham the old roofs are all made of oolite "slats," and as these are split irregularly, we have tiles of various sizes and slightly varying in shape.

Evesham 1901

MINUS: The slats on top of the grill were a little over-large our thin-sliced onions kept slipping through.

Mini Grills Laura Moser 2011

Beside her, Milo was laying on the porch like he lived there, his pink tongue hanging to the porch slats.

A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011