slotter

[ slot-er ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that slots.

  2. a machine tool for shaping vertical surfaces with a cutting tool held in a vertically reciprocating ram.

Origin of slotter

1
First recorded in 1880–85; slot1 + -er1

Words Nearby slotter

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How to use slotter in a sentence

  • In the night time he slept like a wild animal, as he had slept the night Dave slotter stepped on him in the woods.

  • In the night time he slept like a wild animal, as he had slept Dave slotter stepped on him in the woods.

    The Night-Born | Jack London
  • For lathe, planer, shaper and slotter tools, this color should be a light straw.