slate gray

:  a piece of construction material (such as laminated rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding

:  a dense fine-grained metamorphic rock produced by the compression of various sediments (such as clay or shale) so as to develop a characteristic cleavage

:  a tablet (as of slate) used for writing on

:  to cover with slate or a slatelike substance

:  to designate for a specified purpose or action :  schedule

:  to thrash or pummel severely

:  to criticize or censure severely

:  of the color gray

:  tending toward gray

:  dull in color

:  something (such as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color

:  any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white

:  a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War

:  to make gray

:  to become gray

:  age