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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLITTING

ppr. Cutting lengthwise.

SLITTING-MILL

n.A mill where iron bars are slit into nail rods etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SLITTING

SLITTING Slit "ting, a. & n.

Defn: from Slit. Slitting file. See Illust. (i ) of File. -- 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.