Then we saw the yards squared and I saw the sails fill bang up with wind; and yet, you know, ours were Slatting.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
The head of the staysail mounted in thunder, and the Slatting of its folds and the thrashing of its sheet was like the rattling of heavy field-pieces whisked at full gallop over a stony road.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Widening horizons, Slatting of cords and sails in the wind, storms and stars and strange landfalls and long idle calms, thunder of surges, tingle of spray, and eternal labouring and threshing and cleaving of infinite waters-these were to be his portion and true home hereafter.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young