slater

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪtə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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.

• sea slater

• butcher boy
• sowbug
• woodlouse
• roly-poly
• sai bug
• saisai gnat

• Laster, Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

• slatter, slettar, sclater
• (Orkney) slatero, slateroo, slateo, slaterick

• IPA^(key): [ˈsletər]

slater (plural slaters)

1. woodlouse