slotter
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
- Homophone: slaughter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
slotter (plural slotters)
- (agent noun) Someone or something that slots (that is, makes slots).
- (engineering, manufacturing) A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.
- Synonym: mortiser
- (engineering, manufacturing) Such a tool that is much like a shaper but with a smaller ram, vertically mounted.
- Coordinate term: shaper
- (engineering, manufacturing) A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
slotter (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
slotter (third-person singular simple present slotters, present participle slottering, simple past and past participle slottered)
- (transitive) To make filthy; to foul.