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Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing..

Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..

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..

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

Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..

Sheepsplit :: Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

Skiving :: Skiving (n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side..

Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..

Diffission :: Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.

Split :: Splitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spli.

Spalting Knife :: Spalting knife () A knife used in splitting codfish.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins..

Micaceous :: Micaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica..

Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..

Ear-splitting :: Ear-splitting (a.) Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains..

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..

Froe :: Froe (n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Kipper :: Kipper (v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking..

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