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noun

Slot n.

A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.

A bolt or bar for fastening a door. (Prov. Eng.)

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

Slot n. The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. "As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer."

verb

Slot v. t. To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

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"Slot" Quotes from Famous Books

... build our house when I'm a man, I'll take jolly good care not to have a gas-stove in it. That's what runs away with all the money; we're always putting pennies in the slot. And that reminds me: Charley said I'll have to take a ha'penny to put in the mishnery box. Oh, dear, I'm tired of sitting still. I wish he'd come. What time is ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... the village of the Sebungow Dyaks, and the next day reached Sarawak, passing through a most beautiful country where limestone mountains with their fantastic forms and white precipices slot up on every side, draped and festooned with a luxuriant vegetation. The banks of the Sarawak River are everywhere covered with fruit trees, which supply the Dyaks with a great deal of their food. The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... recent scamper, in part from a queer emotion which seemed to clutch at her throat.—"But we walked home over the fields and by the Warren, and just in that boggy bit where you cross the Welsh-road, Godfrey found the slot of a red-deer in the snow, and naturally we both had ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... fortaeller uden sminket smiger hvem vi er, og hvor vi os befinder. Ja, livet her er ei ly for verdens ondskap, er stolt og frit og fuldt av rike glaeder: hver graasten synes god og kirkeklok, hvert redetrae er jo en sangers slot, og alt er skjont, og ...

— An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway • Martin Brown Ruud

... bedroom, and began to see to her hat. This meant blowing at it with short sharp puffs. Leonard tidied up the sitting-room, and began to prepare their evening meal. He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes. Somehow he could not recover his temper, and all the time he was cooking he continued to ...

— Howards End • E. M. Forster

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