slitting, vbl. n.
(ˈslɪtɪŋ)
[f. slit v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making a slit or slits, or of cutting in this manner. Also with up.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Hunger and þurst and chele and feonda bitinga and neddre slittinga. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. vii. (Bodl. MS.), Auripigmentum..haþ kinde of slittinge and fretinge. 1522 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For slyttyng of xliij fote of tymber. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 14 §14 Imprisonment, Loss of Ears, slitting and searing of Nose. 1611 Cotgr., Coupement, a cutting,..cleauing, slitting. a 1712 King Art of Love 713 Zoe..sav'd the slitting of his nose, By timely changing of her cloaths. 1750 Act 23 Geo. II, c. 29 §9 No mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 761 If phymosis coexists with warts..the slitting-up of the prepuce, or circumcision, is advisable. |
2. attrib., as slitting-disk, slitting-file, etc.
In most of these slitting might also be taken as the ppl. a. For descriptions see Knight Dict. Mech.
| 1819 Pantologia X. s.v., By passing it [sc. iron] through the slitting rollers, it is..slit up. Ibid., A slitting machine. 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 822 Round files, square, equalling, knife and slitting files. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2212/2 [Slitting-file, -gage, -machine, -plane, -roller, etc.]. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 241 A screw slitting file, used principally for cutting the slits in screw heads. 1888 Rutley Rock-Forming Min. 23 To draw the clamped stone against the edge of the slitting disc. |
So ˈslitting ppl. a.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 163 Al þe longage of þe Norþhumbres..is so scharp, slitting, and frotynge and vnschape [etc.]. |