slotter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
• Homophone: slaughter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

slot +‎ -er

Noun

slotter (plural slotters)

1. (agent noun) Someone or something that slots (that is, makes slots).
   1. (engineering, manufacturing) A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.

      Synonym: mortiser

   2. (engineering, manufacturing) Such a tool that is much like a shaper but with a smaller ram, vertically mounted.

      Coordinate term: shaper

Etymology 2

Noun

slotter (uncountable)

1. Filth.

Derived terms

• slottery

Verb

slotter (third-person singular simple present slotters, present participle slottering, simple past and past participle slottered)

1. (transitive) To make filthy; to foul.

Anagrams

• Lotters, Stotler, Trostle, lettors, settlor, tetrols, tolters, tortles