A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools
From Middle English slate, slat, slatte, sclate, sclatte, from Old French esclate, from esclat (French éclat), from Frankish *slaitan, from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of *slītaną. éclat.
From Middle English slatten, sclatten, from the noun (see above).
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