slot

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

insert tab A into slot B

A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.

Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).

I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.

The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.

The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves

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!

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

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.

Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.

To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).

To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).

To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.

To put something where it belongs.

And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

To kill.

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."

Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.

A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

A fort or castle.

Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.