After Betsey had prepared the raisins by slitting one side carefully and removing the seeds, she blanched the almonds she had shelled by covering with boiling water.
Slitting the raisins carefully on one side with a sharp-pointed knife, Betsey removed the seeds, pressed in a piece of pecan meat, squeezed the opening together, then rolled in powdered sugar.
She prepared the raisins as usual (slitting carefully on one side and removing the seeds), then made the cream into small balls and pressed into the opening, which she closed.
In Virginia many offenses were punished by loss of the ears or by slitting the ears.
We will be after her, and surely--surely we will find good cause for some throat-slitting as well as the cancelling of marriage promises!
Before 1650 there was a slitting mill at the Saugus Iron Works, but the principal product of this forge was cast iron manufactures, such as pots and kettles.
To avoid slitting the coat all the way to the bottom, put it on little Jack before you adjust his head.
After a lot of trouble we stopped him, threw him, and roped him down; administered a gallon of very strong Epsom salts and water, then a dose of soapsuds, and bled him by slittingboth ears.
This instrument is used for slitting up the skin of a limb and as a bone chisel when it is necessary to mutilate the fetus in order to effect delivery.
Then the slitting and cleansing of the sheath can be done at leisure, as described above.
Peace here, if possible; skins were not made for mere slitting and slashing!
Among the many uses to which metal saws may be applied we mention the slitting of sheet metals, splitting wires and rods, slotting and grooving, nicking screws, etc.
The gauge at the top of the table is used in slitting and for other purposes which will be presently mentioned, and it is adjusted by aid of lines made across the table parallel with the saw.
Other punishments were whipping, cropping the ears, hamstringing, branding in the face, andslitting the nose.
Once charged, and kept freely supplied with oil, a slitting wheel will slice a considerable number of pieces of any precious stone less hard than diamond, and will do so with considerable rapidity.
Thus, we have saw files, slitting files, warding files, and cotter files.
The depth gauge is not shown in figure, because it would hide the slitting knife from view, but it is obvious that it would rest on the surface of the work and thus steady the plane.
Pieces A and B form the body of the plane, between which the bits or all the tools are carried except the slitting knife, which is carried by A alone.
The table is provided with a bevel slitting gauge S', and cross cut or mitering gauge X', Fig.
Who want no broken head nor bloody nose (While busied slitting noses, breaking heads) From the first tipstaff that may interfere!
It would, my lord, but it would also surely have been better had the bishop abstained from talking about slitting ears.
I meant no insolence, my Lord Bishop; and as to theslitting of my ears, I fancy Earl Harold, my master, would have something to say on that score.
I only replied that before there was any slitting of ears your lordship would have a say in the matter.
This machine was announced as an American invention, but the form now principally employed at Antwerp was invented by a Belgian diamond cutter in the United States, and is similar to slitting wheels used by gem cutters for centuries.
The saws for slitting the diamond can thus be made to revolve much more rapidly, and there is a cleanliness and a speed about the work never before attained.
With these meditations, Dominicus Pike drove into the street of Parker's Falls, which, as everybody knows, is as thriving a village as three cotton factories and a slitting mill can make it.
Mr. Higginbotham was as well known at Parker's Falls as any citizen of the place, being part owner of the slitting mill, and a considerable stockholder in the cotton factories.
No doubt can be entertained that the more freely burning varieties of anthracite will work well in the puddling furnace, as they have been successfully employed in the rolling andslitting of bar iron.
The plan of these is in some measure borrowed from the slitting mill, in which bar iron is reduced into rods and thin rolls for various uses.
The slitting and rolling mills which are conducted on this last principle, are therefore beyond the reach of support.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
