† slendv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To slice or cut; to split.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]
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a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 248 Þre hondred heuedes of a slende Wiþ is brond.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 128 If þat þe brayn panne be so myche I-slend [v.r. y-sclend] þat þe part þat is broke, entre vndir þe partie þat is hool.
c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 Fyrst slend thys square sticke length-wyse in to two.
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