Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A momentary lull between breaking waves, favorable for launching a boat.
- noun A lull in a high windstorm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical:
- noun The slack of a rope.
- noun A short gleam of fine weather.
- noun A brief, passing breeze.
- To dabble in mire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The period of a transitory breeze.
- noun An interval of fair weather.
- noun The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The period of a
transitory breeze . - noun An
interval of goodweather . - noun nautical The loose part of a
rope ;slack .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Labels: action alert, DARE, dictionaries, Dictionary of American Regional English, Jesse Sheidlower, slatch, sleighty, tally-lagger posted by John McGrath @ 11: 15 PM 1 Comments
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Labels: action alert, DARE, dictionaries, Dictionary of American Regional English, Jesse Sheidlower, slatch, sleighty, tally-lagger posted by John McGrath @ 11: 15 PM
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Labels: action alert, DARE, dictionaries, Dictionary of American Regional English, Jesse Sheidlower, slatch, sleighty, tally-lagger posted by John McGrath @ 11: 15 PM
Wordie Action Alert: Dictionary of American Regional English 2008
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Spinning, you had to pick slatch, you had to write back guides, and you had to set in roing, and you had to write roing, clean out in there where it was at, so many things you had to do.
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Or the challenged ship, believing herself to be the faster craft of the two, clapped on all sail, caught an opportune "slatch of wind," and showed her pursuer a clean pair of heels, the tender's guns meanwhile barking away at her until she passed out of range.
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You may ride in your quiet road-stead on the other side with all your ships, till God send us that long-wished-for westerly wind, unless you get a _slatch_ of wind to carry one of your ships to the _bab_, to see if all be well there, and so return back to you.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
whatever1013 commented on the word slatch
The lull between storms or a brief pause in a windstorm.
December 8, 2006
chained_bear commented on the word slatch
"Slatch, the period of transitory breeze of wind, or the length of its duration."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 484
October 13, 2008