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adjective

slitting adj. A. & n. from slit.

slitting mill.

(a)

A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like.

(b)

A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder.

slitting roller, one of a pair of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting like shears, used in slitting metals.

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Etymology of 'Slitting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slitting" Quotes from Famous Books

... restoration of the monarchy? They had emphasized their devotion to the Duc d'Orleans by re-electing his parliamentary leader, the Comte de Sabran, by an overwhelming vote. From the rich and influential wholesaler to the low hind whose twelve hours a day were passed in knocking bullocks on the head or in slitting throats with precision the butchers stood three to one for the royal regime. Men may be hired for certain services, but in such a case as this there must exist some natural sentiment at bottom. This sentiment was perhaps only the common French ...

— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... eighty-six war relief organizations were operating in France. In very many cases these organizations only represented a hundredth part of the actual personnel working; the other ninety-nine hundredths were in the States, rolling bandages, shredding oakum, slitting linen, making dressings. Long before April, 1917, American college boys had won a name by their devotion in forcing their ambulances over shell torn roads on every part of the French Front, but, perhaps, with peculiar heroism at Verdun. Already the American ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

... from head to foot. The devils, however, did not seem to be in the least discouraged. One of them, who seemed to be the leader, went away and quickly returned bringing with him an enormous pair of rollers fixed in an iron frame, such as are used in iron-mills for the purpose of rolling out and slitting bars of iron, except instead of being turned by machinery, each roller was turned by an immense crank. Three of the devils now seized Brown and put his feet to the rollers, while two others stood, one at each crank, and began to roll ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe