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Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer Hath left his slot beside the way; The little Ermine now is seen White wanderer of the snow; […] And hark! the rosy-breasted bird, The Throstle of sweet song!
One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:
But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.
1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:
By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.
1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:
Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time:
According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.
2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:
She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:
Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.
1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31:
One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."
2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59:
Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.
2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184:
They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.
1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504:
The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.
2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen:
I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.