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- verb Past participle of
slit
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Examples
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There were bolt-holes innumerable -- recesses in walls, embrasures of deep slitten windows now darkened, whence they could start up behind us; and abandoned fireplaces, six feet deep in the masonry, as well as the tangle of communicating doors.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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How "slote" comes in is not quite evident, but that when the pages of a dull book are "slitten" by the paper-knife, it will be read and slated by a critic, and then "slited" (or "slighted") by the public, is quite sufficient without "putting a penny in the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Various
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