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What is a slater?

What is a slater? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sowbug.
  3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
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A slater from Skipton was tried at the town hall on a charge of wilful damage to a confectionery stall.
He worked, first as a weaver, then as a slater, and learned metalwork from the local blacksmith.
Tony stared off in the building trade and quickly settled into work as a roof slater.
Captain slater of the Liberty Boys has walked into his own trap!
There Naismith worked, as best he could given his poor health, as a plasterer and slater.
Once the ditches have disappeared, the rhythm of tiler and slater, no hand signals, will be translated into a bag of shadows inside a furnace.

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