splitting vbl n
3 Comb ~ knife, ~ table.
1984 POWELL 193 "The Loss of the Blanche Marie II": She carried a crew of four young men just in the prime of life,/Who knew the game called fishing, and handled the splitting knife. 1987 POWELL 90 That summer a younger son, Lester, had stood to the splitting table and cut the throats of one thousand quintals of fish. He earned enough money to purchase all his school books for the winter.
