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slitting

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slit  (slt)
n.
A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
tr.v. slit, slit·ting, slits
1. To make a slit or slits in.
2. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.
[Middle English slitte, from slitten, to split, from Old English sltan, to cut up.]
slitter n.
slitty adj.


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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
"On my oath it is so," said Sancho; "and foul fortune to him who won't marry after slitting Senor Pandahilado's windpipe
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Heathcliff pulled it away by main force, slitting up the flesh as it passed on, and thrust it dripping into his pocket.
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