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) 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

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