slit
verb (used with object)
to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
was slitting
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past progressiveof slit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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One June day, as Eph was slitting bluefish at the little pier which he had built on the bay-shore, near his rude ice-house, two men came up.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
One June day, as Eph was slitting blue-fish at the little pier which he had built on the bay shore, near his rude ice-house, two men came up.
From The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine" by Chaplin, Heman White
