Word Meanings - SPITCHCOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To split lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Related words: (words related to SPITCHCOCK)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• SPLIT-TAIL
  A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  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.
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• SPLIT WHEEL
  = Split pulley.
• SPLIT STITCH
  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.
• SPLIT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
• BROILING
  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.
• SPLITTER
  One who, or that which, splits.
• BROILER
  1. One who broils, or cooks by broiling. 2. A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling. 3. A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.
• SPLIT STUFF
  Timber sawn into lengths and then split.
• BROIL
  1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. 2. To subject to great heat.
• SPLIT
  To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety. (more info) Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten,
• SPLIT KEY
  A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• EAR-SPLITTING
  Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
• EMBROILMENT
  The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• RESPLIT
  To split again.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.