slitting-milln.
1. Metallurgy. A mill or machine by which iron bars or plates are slit into nail-rods, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment > machines
slitting-mill?1677
slit-mill1776
shear1845
nail cutter1851
plate shears1861
bar-cutter1874
paper cutter1880
guillotine1881
croppera1884
guillotine shears1884
nibbler1939
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & 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 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 163 Those they intend to be cut into rodds, are carryed to the slitting Mills.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4862/7 Leases of two Forges, Furnace and Slitting Mill.
1792 Descr. Kentucky 49 The slitting and rolling mills of Pennsylvania.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 56 The operations of..the slitting-mill, the flatting-mill, &c.
2. Gem-cutting. A slicer, slitting-disk.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller's tools
muffler1688
polishing mill1757
spit-sticker1837
slitting-mill1850
smoothing-mill1850
gem-peg1853
jewel setter1875
needle file1875
peg1879
stake1884
sharp1903
1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. 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.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 823/2.
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