Splitting | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Phase splitting
·add. ·- The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches o...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
shingle-splitting
vb. n. obsolete Tasmanianslang. 1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89: «When a man gets behindhand ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
splitting out
To remove the blocks on which a vessel rests in a dock, or at launching, when the pressure is too gr...

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splitting the books
The making of a new complete-book after payment, in which the dead, run, or discharged men are omitt...

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