subs. (old).—Half-a-crown: 2/6; see RHINO (GROSE); also (B. E.) SLATE.
Verb. (American).—To throw, beat, or move with violence.
1604. MARSTON, The Malcontent, iv. 1. Mal. SLATTED his brains out, then soused him in the briny sea.
1846. New York Commercial Advertiser, 15 May. Aunt Nancy would retire to the kitchen, and taking up the dipper, would SLAT round the hot water from a kettle.
c. 1859. Lafayette Chronicle [BARTLETT]. Suz alive! but warn’t my dander up to hear myself called a flat? down I SLAT the basket, and upsought all the berries.
1834. C. A. DAVIS, Letters of Jack Downing, Major, 200. With that I handed the Gineral my ax, and he SLATTED about the chamber with it for a spell.
