Word Meanings - SHEEPSPLIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

• KNIFESWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
• SPLITDYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• SPLITINFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• Machinery
  Machines, in general, or collectively.
• Sheepskin
  The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
• SPLITSHOTSPLITSTROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• SPLITSTITCH
  A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.
• SPLITSTUFF
  Timber sawn into lengths and then split.
• Cuttlefish
  A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

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