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A plank with a purpose: too thin to be a board, too proud to be a stick.
means A thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, or plastic used as part of a frame, blind, or fence.
from From Old French 'esclat,' meaning a splinter or fragment broken off something — itself from 'esclater,' to break or shatter into pieces. So a slat is etymologically a shard that found a purpose: the splinter that got organized into something useful, like a blind or a bed frame.
- blinds duty
- tilts to control light without opening anything
- etymology
- from old french esclat, a splinter or fragment
- bed support
- the unsung reason your mattress does not sag
- fence form
- gaps between slats are called the pattern, not laziness