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split-
the verbal stem in combs., as split-down U.S. Stock Exchange (see quot. 1976); cf. split-up below; split-farthing a., mean, miserly; split-fig (see quots.); split-off, an act of splitting off; something that splits off or that has become split off; split-plough, a plough used for splitting ridges; split-up, an act of splitting up; spec. in the U.S. Stock Exchange: the division of a stock into two or more stocks of the same total value; cf. split-down above.
1932Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 15/8 The whys and wherefores of the ‘*split-down’ movement in the capital structures of various corporations, in contrast with the stock ‘split-ups’ popular in the boom days of 1928–29 are now being explained in Wall Street. 1976D. W. Moffat Econ. Dict. 257/2 The reverse split, or split-down in which a corporation reduces the number of shares into which its ownership is divided. The single word split usually refers to a split-up.
1787W. H. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) II. 384 Nip, a near, *split-farthing house-wife.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Split-fig, a Grocer. 1882Jago Cornwall Gloss. 274 Split-fig, a very stingy person. Nickname for a grocer who would cut a raisin in two, rather than give overweight.
1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. ii. 40 Ah knowed one preacher dat was called to preach at one of dese *split-off churches. De members had done split off from a big church... He come and preached at dis split-off for two whole weeks. 1964New Statesman 14 Feb. 248/1 The split-off of science into a separate culture.
1840J. Buel Farmer's Comp. 118 These high furrows are separated in the spring with the four-horse *split-plough.
1878H. Sweet tr. H. Paul in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1879) 390 Even in the parent Indogermanic language long before its *split-up, there were no longer any roots, stems and suffixes, but only ready-made words. 1908G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock iv. 76, I should have told her then about my split-up with the Governor. 1928E. S. Mead Corporation Finance (ed. 6) I. xxx. 358 We may note finally the difference between a stock ‘split-up’ and a stock dividend. In the first case two or three shares are issued for one share of existing stock, and when this is par-value stock the par value is reduced. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 9 Sept. 11/1 Pepsi-Cola added 7/8 to its brisk upturn of the previous day in response to the three-for-one splitup proposal. 1975High Times Dec. 51/2 Last year I was still spinning from my split-up with a man. 1976Split-up [see split-down above]. |