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▪ I. slitter, n.|ˈslɪtə(r)| [f. slit v. + -er1.] One who, or that which, slits; spec. as the name of various implements.
1611Cotgr., Tailleur, a cutter, slitter, hewer. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. xxv, The slitters slit the four fingers, and shaped the thumbs and forgits. 1865Bauerman Catal. Mining Models 21 Pick (Slitter), a double-armed pick,..used for slitting out the vein. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Slitter, a machine for shearing up sheet-iron into slips for nail-rods, etc. 1895G. E. Davis Pract. Microscopy (ed. 3) 280 The slitter is a thin wrought-iron disc about 11 inches in diameter,..and when used its edge is charged with diamond dust. ▪ II. † ˈslitter, v.1 Obs. rare. Also 4 slyter. [A frequentative from slit v.] trans. To cut (a garment) with ornamental slits. Hence ˈslittered ppl. a., wearing clothes so ornamented.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 840 Wrought was his robe in straunge gise, And al to-slytered for queyntise. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 121 Þei wasten hem in..pelure & costelewe cloþis & proude slitterede squyerys & haukis & hondis. ▪ III. ˈslitter, v.2 Now dial. Also 4 scliter. [Obscurely related to slidder v. and slither v.] intr. To slide, slip, glide.
a1400[see slithering vbl. n.]. 1825–in dialect use (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). |