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38 words match “PLITT”

An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.

EAR-SPLITTING a.

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

HAIRSPLITTER n.

essively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.

HAIRSPLITTING a. 2 definitions

The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.

PHASE SPLITTER n.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

PHASE SPLITTING n.

The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

One who, or that which, splits.

trument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the…

CLEAVAGE n. 2 definitions

The act of cleaving or splitting.

CLEFT n. 2 definitions

A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. Is. ii. 21.

CROSSGRAINED a.

ers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

Act of cleaving or splitting. [R.] Bailey.

outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

al put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.

twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.