Slatting - What does it mean?
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An arrangement of slats.
The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down.
* 2010 , Roger D. Taylor, Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing (page 39)
slatting
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(en noun)- Weakened by the strains of sailing in a severe gale and, no doubt, by the accumulated bangings and endless slattings of the previous year's ocean calms, the top batten had fractured, creating an ineffective and unsightly deep V shape in the top sail panel.
