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• Slitting mill — The slitting mill was a watermill for slitting bars of iron into rods. The rods then were passed to nailers who made the rods into nails, by giving them a point and head. The slitting mill was probably invented near Liège in what is now Belgium.… …   Wikipedia

• slitting mill — slitting slit ting (sl[i^]t t[i^]ng), a. & n. from {slit}. [1913 Webster] {slitting file}. See Illust. (i) of {sile}. {slitting mill}. (a) A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like. (b) A machine… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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