slitting mill

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	A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like
	A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder.

See also: slitting slitting

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With these meditations, Dominicus Pike drove into the street of Parker's Falls, which, as everybody knows, is as thriving a village as three cotton factories and a slitting mill can make it.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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