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eel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep. -- Sheep sorrel. (Bot.), a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel. --…

A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

a scoop or scoops, operated by a steam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings.

The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.

lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine. -- Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock. -- Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hangin…

To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.

To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. [Slang, U.S.] We had to size up our fellow legislators. The Century.

The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.

A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

d, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

fer. -- Slide rest (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion. -- Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performanc…

A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine. A native slip to us from foreign seeds. Shak. The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride. R. Browning.

air of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting like shears, -- used in slitting metals.

; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. H. Kingsley.

Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.

Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind. [Prov. Eng.]

An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.