Slitting

[Sarah]

from Slit. Slitting file. See Illust. (i) of File.-- Slitting mill. (a) A mill where iron bars or plates are slit intonarrow strips, as nail rods, and the like. (b) A machine used bylapidaries 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 ribsentering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting likeshears, -- used in slitting metals.

[Sarah]

1. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.

2. To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.]

[Sarah]

to move about in a drunken and badly behaved fashion.

[Merna]

present participle of slit