What is the meaning of "slate"?
The boys and girls with their books and slates go to school. What is "slates" means? Thanks.

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What is the meaning of "slate"? 
The boys and girls with their books and slates go to school. What is "slates" means?  Thanks.

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A slate in this case is a small chalkboard that you can carry - a little larger than your book.  Before paper became so cheap, that is how students wrote their lessons.

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Wow, that is old school.... yes it is literally slate (ie. the stone), used as a small chalkboard by students to write on.

I'm imagining this story is set at least sixty years ago, if not over a hundred.

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To abuse,      To review unsparingly,        To bait with dogs,     To  set on.

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