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slotter

noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɒtə(ɹ)
  • homophone: slaughter (cot–caught merger)

1

noun

Meaning 1

Someone or something that slots (that is, makes slots).

A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: agent

Topics: business, engineering, manufacturing, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mortiser

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Someone or something that slots (that is, makes slots).

Such a tool that is much like a shaper but with a smaller ram, vertically mounted.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: agent

Topics: business, engineering, manufacturing, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Filth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To make filthy; to foul.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: assoil, befoul, soil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From slot + -er.