1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 202 The soft parts being divided, the utility of a split bandage in keeping them back is generally allowed.

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 217 The split bolster is employed for cutting out long rectangular holes or mortices.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 143 Taking my rod (a light split-cane) in his hands, he shook it—and grinned.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 385 A stand upon the split cane principle. When the ring and bottom fittings are removed, the stick opens out into three pieces.

1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 50 I call it the split-chuck, for want of a more appropriate name.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 237 Split chucks were made here many years ago.

1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. (at cited word) In Surgery, split-cloth, a bandage for the head, consisting of a central part, and six or eight tails.

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 6 Certain fractions are cast in one piece... If other fractions are needed, they require to be made up with small types, called split fractions.

1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 168 The second [contrivance] is generally used in weaving the richest silks.., and is termed the split harness.

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 221 The two parts are previously prepared either to the form of the tongue or split joint.

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.H 4 A leading screw working in a split nut beneath the slide rest.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/2 Split-pin, a pin or cotter with a head at one end and a split at the other.

1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 171 Take out split-pin and unscrew steel pivot out of metal plate.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 237 Separate split plugs for different sized objects are provided.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 129 Split rigger, riggers made in two equal portions and screwed together in order to facilitate shifting or changing.

1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. xxi. 340 It was locked, but the key was on her own split-ring.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 316 A novel safety guard;..swivel double like a split ring.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/2 A split-ring has an opening by which keys may be introduced to be strung upon it.

1902 R. Grimshaw Mod. Workshop Hints xiv. 268 (heading) Filling split bearings with babbitt.

1973 O. S. Nock Gresley Pacifics I. vii. 91/2 The inside big end..necessarily had split bearings.

1929 Techn. Notes U.S. Nat. Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. No. 324. 1 It is known that..a suction exists between the parts of a split flap located at the trailing edge.

1968 R. Miller & D. Sawers Technical Devel. Mod. Aviation iii. 84 The adoption of retractable undercarriages, which increased drag when they were lowered for landing, made it less important to use flaps which increased drag as greatly as the split flap.

1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 1332 The split brilliant..only differs from the full brilliant..in the foundation squares being divided horizontally into two triangular facets.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Split crow, the sign of the spread eagle.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 224 The sign of the church might well have been the spread or split eagle.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 182 And white teeth showing in your dragon-grin as you race, you split-face.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/2 Split-leather is an inferior article, and is used for light boots and shoes [etc.].

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 277 Split-lift, a narrow strip of leather split in two, which forms the lift, or seat of a shoe.

1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 63 Andræaceæ. —Splitmosses.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 169 The wood splits clean and easy, and is best adapted for split-paling and laths.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum at Pease The split pease do not need it.

1804 ‘Ignotus’ Culina 37 One pint of split pease.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Split-pease, husked peas, split for making pease-soup or pease-puddings.

1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 191 He was as like Pat Kineen..as two split peas are like each other.

1976 Scotsman 20 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 4/1 The look of clothes today suggests country more than town... Capes and ponchos, loose knits and split skirts, are more at home on town birds than country cousins.

1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity (1823) I. 620 (note) The name of split-snake..we considered as descriptive not so much of its split appearance as of the singular sensation occasioned by its bite.

1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery iii. 22 Split Stitch is worked like ordinary ‘stem’, except that the needle is always brought up through the crewel or silk, which it splits.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 194/2 Split stitch, a stitch much used in ancient Church Embroidery..to work the faces and hands of figures.

1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania I. 159 ‘Split stuff,’ by which is meant timber..split into ‘posts and rails’, slabs, or paling.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. iv. 146 A mile or so of road lined with pretty cottages—pretty although formed of nothing but ‘split stuff’.

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 223 Pogonichthys macrolepidotus, Split-tail.

1887 J. G. Frazer Totemism 10 A remarkable feature of some of these Oraon totems is, that they are not whole animals, but parts of animals... Such totems may be distinguished as split totems.

1898 Year-bk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 122 Another new insect..is the so-called tobacco leaf-miner, or ‘split worm’.

1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. ix. 228 The split baluster ornament..has been variously named split baluser, cannon, or mace decoration.

1934 Burlington Mag. Sept. 125/1 An extensive use of relief decoration in the form of turned ‘split balusters’ is also rather characteristic of many of these pieces.

1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 635 Split baluster, a turned baluster split centrally, and applied ornamentally to a surface.

1955 C. V. Mather Winning High School Football vii. 187 (caption) The halfback splits half the distance with the split end.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 27/5 Adkins will be the split end with underrated Jay Roberts, a tough blocker, remaining at tight end.

1977 New Yorker 10 Oct. 177/2 Using only two backs..and sending four split ends..downfield, Restic had Harvard throw fifty-seven passes that afternoon, thirty-one of them valid.

1939 Country Life 11 Feb. p. xxxiii/1 (advt.) Made in Cavalry Twills..Sheppards Checks, Split falls or fly front.

1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 75/2 Falls, a buttoned flap to the front of breeches and..of pantaloons and trousers... ‘Small’ or ‘Split Falls’ was a narrow central flap.

1929 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 49 96/2 In lining a contractile cavity with a split graft allowance should always be made for contraction.

1958 New Biol. 27 40 Split-grafts are prepared by enzyme digestion of the fibres joining the epidermis to the dermis, which frees the epidermis for use as the graft.

1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 416 Split jump,..a variation of the jump from the back edge with the free toe assisting.

1968 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 15/6 As always, Miss Waghorn used her long legs to full advantage in the split jump, a majestic spreadeagle and well-timed lay-back and grab-parallel spins.

1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 20 Split-Pea, tea.

1931 S. Kaye-Smith Hist. Susan Spray iii. 296 I'll make you a nice cup of split pea.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 218/2 When the balls travel in different directions the stroke is also known as a split shot.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 254/1 Split stroke, taking croquet so as to drive the balls on courses nearly at right angles to one another.

1932 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. 252 The damn thing zoomed past and did a split-turn and came back at me again.

1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 530 The other flues may be arranged either as a wheel-draught or a split-draught.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/2 Split-draft, (Furnace,) in steam-boilers, when the current of smoke and hot air is divided into two or more flues.

1895 Daily News 25 June 6/3 Split duty, dividing the day's work into two or more portions, had been a sore point among the London sorters for many years.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 327 Whenever the metal is run off by the tap-hole into the two basins,..called Split-Hearths.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall x. 308 Some good examples of split lodes are to be seen in the Marazion and Breague districts.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iv. 78 The twins were taking their third split soda—it was brotherly to divide a bottle.

1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War 25 This ‘split-beam’ method of direction-finding gives very accurate results.

1966 D. Taylor Introd. Radar ii. 24 Special stations..with facilities for ‘split-beam’ d.f. [sc. direction finding] were provided for accurate tracking of ships and fire-control purposes.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 594 d/1 The split-beam spectrophotometer..measures the difference in absorption at any given wavelength between two nearly identical cell suspensions.

1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xlii. 397 The method was to set a Freya station on the coast of France so that its split-beam pointed over the target in London.

1972 New Society 7 Dec. 591/1 The business has evolved its own jargon; full frontals are ‘beavers’, becoming ‘split-beavers’ if the legs are parted.

1976 J. K. Lieberman & N. S. Rhodes Compl. CB Handbk. vi. 137 Split beaver, stripper.

1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xxiv. 270 In the further stages of frankness ‘beaver’ and ‘split beaver’ shots show the hairy vulva.

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xiii. 241 Pictures of naked women... If you could see the sex parts..that was a beaver... If the parts were open, that was called a split beaver.

1970 Times 28 Sept. 13/4 Buchanan, the British lightweight champion, gained a 15 round split points decision over Ismael Laguna of Panama.

1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 8 Oct. 30/3 The 29-year-old Panther..then said he had already petitioned the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control over the decision which gave Billy Savage the title by a split decision on September 24.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 31/2 (advt.) Beautiful split entrance bungalow.

1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. b42/5 (advt.) Keep that city job and enjoy country living in these unusually attractive split entry ranches.

1976 Laurel (Montana) Outlook 23 June 19/1 (advt.) You will never regret buying this new 4 bdrm split entry.

1941 Amateur Photographer (ed. 2) vi. 121 Some people find this split-field type of range finder difficult to use.

1976 C. Reynolds Photoguide to Filters 156 One special accessory is the split-field lens.

1950 R. A. McCoy Pract. Photogr. ii. 15 To operate the split image type [of rangefinder] it is necessary to look through the finder and observe that the image seems to be broken in the center and offset.

1960 Focal Encycl. Photogr. (rev. ed.) 946/2 The parallax effect appears as a split image which joins up across a dividing line when the lens is set to maximum sharpness.

1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 15 As a focusing aid a ‘split image’ or focusing screen rangefinder may be sunk into the center of the underside of the screen.

1981 ‘M. Innes’ Lord Mullion's Secret 179 He was by a strange freak of heredity the split image of one commemorated by Nicholas Hilliard some centuries ago.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xx. 348 ‘Rain,’ she thought... But, in a split instant: ‘Rain? No!... Cannon!’

1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 27 Using his one periscope for split-minute looks.

1957 I. Asimov Naked Sun ii. 31 For one fleeting split moment he bent his head back and stared directly at Solaria's sun.

1953 B. Westley News Editing 419/1 Split page, same as ‘second front page’.

1957 J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 58 Colour photographs filled the split-page of every newspaper.

1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 26 Split page, the front page of a newspaper's second section; second front page.

1895 S. P. Thompson Polyphase Electr. Currents ix. 175 This is a form of split-phase motor having two or more sets of coils placed at different angles.

1921 W. S. Ibbetson Motor & Dynamo Control vi. 174 This split-phase winding has a very high resistance and induction, so that the current in it lays nearly 90° behind that in the running coils.

1953 Pedestrian Summer 26 Sometimes the policeman is operating what is known as a split phase; pedestrians may cross half the road in front of halted traffic and not realize that the traffic on the other half has the right of way.

1976 C. G. Grolle Compl. Guide Electr. Repairs viii. 120 All split-phase motors have a centrifugal switch that drops out the contacts on the start winding after full speed is attained.

1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 206 Scarcely has a family fixed itself, and enclosed a plantation with the universal fence,—split rails [etc.].

1897 Essex Antiq. (Salem, Mass.) Feb. 27/2 The split-rail fence is also old. Logs, generally of ash, about nine feet in length, and a foot or more in diameter, split the entire length into about sixteen equal parts, formed the rails, which were chamfered at each end. Of such split sections posts were also made, having holes cut in them in the proper places to receive the ends of the rails.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. 30/2 A new post or a new set of rails has to be put in a split-rail fence.

1976 V. J. Scott & D. Koski Walk-in (1977) xxx. 216 A weathered split-rail fence..announced the boundary.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Split run.

1963 D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man (1964) vi. 110 In split-run tests, long copy invariably outsells short copy.

1977 D. Grossman Samson Managagem. Lexicon ii. 19 Split-run copy testing.

1979 Austral. Financial Rev. 15 Aug. 22/6 The commission's investigations cover practices known in some sectors of the trade as ‘split runs’ and ‘blowing’. A split run involves several print runs of the same editorial content, but with different advertising content.

1953 R. Bretz Techniques Television Production xi. 206 In the case of the phone conversation the split screen might appear in a direct cut after a single shot of the person making the call.

1958 Times 20 Jan. 3/2 Attempts to quicken the action [of a film] by a split screen device fail lamentably in their object.

1970 W. Wager Sledgehammer (1971) xv. 91 As if in some film..Williston's neatly typed dossiers..jumped into focus... Actually they appeared side by side in a split-screen effect, hung there for a long moment and vanished.

1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 26 Sept. 42/2 Alvy and Annie, on a split screen, talking to their shrinks about the frequency with which they have sex.

1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 196/1 Split shift,..a work schedule or shift in which there is a break in the working hours.

1960 Guardian 30 June 10/4 Split shifts (e.g. 4–9 a.m. and 5–8 p.m.) and split days off.

1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? ii. 39 Wards operating a three-shift system, instead of the generally abhorred ‘split shift’ which gave nurses a useless afternoon break.

1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk p. v The footplate crew has an even worse cycle—what is called the ‘split shift’ system.

1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. f5/3 (advt.) We have psychiatric nursing positions available on all shifts. No split shifts.

1836 J. Hoyt Let. 21 Nov. in W. L. Mackenzie Life M. Van Buren (1846) 262 I was reproached by you for having voted a ‘split ticket’.

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms App. Split Ticket,..it sometimes happens..that individuals..erase one or more of the names and substitute others more to their liking. This is called a split ticket [1859 also a scratch ticket].

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 270 At times the party itself is divided into fractions,..and the result of such a split in their own ranks, is a split ticket.

1964 Economist 31 Oct. 482/2 A ‘split-ticket’ group..to urge voters to support Mr Johnson and Mr Keating, the Republican senatorial candidate.

1960 Annals Amer. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. CCCXXVIII. 52/1 Of all the time-saving remedies, the split trial should prove the most powerful.

1967 North-Western Reporter 2nd. Ser. CL. 323/1 In that year [sc. 1878] secs. 4697–98–99, R.S. 1878, were enacted and provided a split trial in which the insanity issue was tried first and if the accused was found sane he was then tried on his plea of not guilty before the same jury.

1926 H. C. Witwer Roughly Speaking 223 Ham actors get a extra split week at a picture house if their fearful monologs put the ladies on the broiler.

1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 691 Split week, a week on the road divided between two or more towns.

1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry ix. 81 Split weeks have also become fashionable instead of unvarying Saturday-to-Saturday weeks.

1958 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Undiscov. Self in Coll. Wks. v. 74 The rupture between faith and knowledge is a symptom of the split consciousness which is so characteristic of the mental disorder of the day.

1944 H. Read Educ. Free Men x. 32 We divide the intelligence from the sensibility of our children, create split-men (schizophrenics, to give them a psychological name), and then discover that we have no social unity.

1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 51 (heading) The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego.

1938 Oxf. Times 8 Apr. 23/5 He said Phillips was of what would be called ‘schizoid type’ but he could not agree that in the case of a split mind the subject could not distinguish between right and wrong.

1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. i. 121 Typical examples of socially approved split-mind patterns are the Astronomer who believes both in his instruments and in Christian dogma [etc.].

1947 S. O'Faoláin Irish i. 23 A delightful dualism—the moderns would call it splitmindedness.

1963 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Myst. Coniunctionis in Coll. Wks. XIV. iii. 248 The surprisingly common phenomenon of masculine split-mindedness, when the right hand mustn't know what the left is doing.

1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. x. 129 The split personalities of hysterics and mediums..have a subjective meaning.

1931 E. Wilson Axel's Castle ii. 40 A theory which makes one's poetic self figure as one of the halves of a split personality.

1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept xiii. 259 In my view, he [sc. Walter Elliott] was a split personality.

1974 Listener 31 Jan. 131/1 Every nation becomes a bundle of contradictions and paradoxes—practically a split personality.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1977) III. 372 The fact is that Jim is absolutely split-minded.

1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 124 630/2 I must admit to being rather split-minded on this subject.

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 144 Quassilabia lacera,..Split-mouth Sucker.

1895 C. J. Cornish Wild Eng. Today 121 The ordinary high split-oak railing.

1972 Guardian 8 Mar. 12/6 Since they are..formed from a merger of two or three existing schools, the split-site comprehensive schools have some attraction for local educational authorities.

1973 Times 11 Apr. 8/6 A minibus is used in one of our split-site comprehensives.

1975 Times 30 Dec. 3/2 The survey of 18 split-site schools, most of them divided by one or two miles across cities and industrial roads, concludes that they are ‘the unfortunate by-products of imposing a comprehensive system too quickly’.

1981 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 11 Nov. 9/8 But in 24 of the 63 cases, the authority would have to create either a split-site school, or a school with more than 490 pupils.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvii. 170 In the split-timber houses, a frame is first put up.

1958 R. W. Sperry in Harlow & Woolsey Biol. & Biochem. Bases Behavior 418 In recent efforts to learn more about connectivity principles in perceptual integration, we have been putting to use the demonstrated functional independence of the two hemispheres in what we have come to call the ‘split-brain’ preparation... In these split-brain animals one can leave intact a whole hemisphere to maintain generalized background function.

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 94/2 At times, the non-dominant hand may ‘go off on its own’ and have to be restricted by the dominant hand. One begins to doubt whether a split brain man is singular or plural. But in no sense does he resemble a schizophrenic, in spite of the layman's interpretation of that word.

1972 R. E. Ornstein Psychol. of Consciousness ii. 55 In day-to-day living, these ‘split-brain’ people exhibit almost no abnormality.

1947 Radiology 49 321/1 In this study the split-dose technic was applied to recovery as tested by lethal effects.

1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 246/2 Young..has written a program to synthesize the results of split-dose experiments from survival curves at various phases of the cycle.

1935 Psychol. Rev. 42 158 This conception of split-half or comparable-form reliability as simply inter-item correlation can and should be brought into relationship with Kelley's concept or reliability as adequacy of sampling.

1946 Jrnl. Educational Psychol. 37 473 Since any test may be split in a large number of ways, the split-half method of estimating test reliability fails to give a unique result.

1971 Computers & Humanities 5 260 Because 0101 and 0410 had high internal reliability (split half), we did not cut, Xerox, and translate further samples from these books.

1929 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 49 82 (heading) The use and uses of large split skin grafts of intermediate thickness.

1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 480/1 Excision and split-skin graft undertaken in 5 patients was successful in the 3 who were traced.