To throw or cast down violently or carelessly; jerk.To strike; knock; beat; bang.To flap violently, as the sails when blown adrift in a violent wind, or when in a calm the motion of the ship strikes them against the masts and rigging.n. A sudden flap or slap; a sharp blow or stroke.n. A spot; stain.n. A spent salmon, or one that has spawned.Same as slate.To split; crack.n. A thin flat stone, or piece of stone, especially a piece of slate; a slate; a stone tile. See slate.n. A thin slab or veneer of stone sometimes used to face rougher stonework or brickwork.n. A long narrow strip or slip of wood.n. In carriage-building, one of the thin strips of wood or iron used to form the ribs of the top or canopy of a buggy, carryall, or rockaway, or to form the bottom of a wagonbody.n. One of the radial strips used in forming the bottom of a wicker basket.n. plural Dark-blue ooze, rather hard, left dry by the ebb of the sea.Made of slats.An abbreviation of south latitude.n. A green sheepskin, with the wool removed, which has been dried in the sun.