Definition of plitt

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Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

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Kipper :: Kipper (v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking..
Skiving :: Skiving (n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..
Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing..
Felting :: Felting (n.) The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..
Split :: Splitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spli.
Slaty :: Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture..
Frowey :: Frowey (a.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Split-tongued :: Splitter (n.) One who, or that which, splits..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
Micaceous :: Micaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica..
Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical..
Throe :: Throe (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
Diffission :: Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.
Ear-splitting :: Ear-splitting (a.) Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains..
Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument 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 chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..
Froe :: Froe (n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
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