ˈslitting-mill
[slitting vbl. n.]
1. Metall. A mill or machine by which iron bars or plates are slit into nail-rods, etc.
| 1667 Primatt City & C. Builder 8 A Slitting-Mill, which is for the forming of Iron into some fashion, as into Iron⁓rods, Nails, and such like things. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 163 Those they intend to be cut into rodds, are carryed to the slitting Mills. 1711 Lond. Gaz. No. 4862/7 Leases of two Forges, Furnace and Slitting Mill. 1792 Descr. Kentucky 49 The slitting and rolling mills of Pennsylvania. 1835 Ure Philos. Manuf. 56 The operations of..the slitting-mill, the flatting-mill, &c. |
2. Gem-cutting. A slicer, slitting-disk.
| 1850 Holtzapffel Turning III. 1098 Slitting Mill or the Slicer, is a very thin sheet-iron disk, the edge of which is charged with diamond powder, and lubricated with brick oil. |
3. A saw-mill for slitting deals.
| 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. |