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Splinterproof :: Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot..

Forelock :: Forelock (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun..

Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..

Juggle :: "Juggle (n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split..

Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2..

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..

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc..

Schizocarp :: Schizocarp (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..

Skiving :: Skiving (n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

Spelding :: Spelding (n.) A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.

Tupelo :: Tupelo (n.) A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge..

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..

Cleave :: Cleave (v. t.) To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.

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..

Split-tail :: Split-tail (n.) A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family.

Split :: Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (n.) The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

Split :: Split (v. i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them..

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