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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In the stonework industry, one who splits large blocks of building granite, marble, and sandstone into slabs or smaller blocks, by drilling holes into the stone and then driving wedges into them until the stone breaks along the line of drilled holes. Also called rock breaker; rockdriller. See also:rock driller; quarryman. (references) |
Occupations | Separates blocks of rough dimension stone from quarry mass, using jackhammer, wedges, and feathers (shims): Marks desired dimensions on stone, using rule and chalkline, and cuts groove along outline, using chisel. Drills holes along outline with jackhammer [JACKHAMMER OPERATOR (mine & quarry)]. Inserts wedges and feathers into holes and drives wedges with sledgehammer to split stone from mass. May set charge of explosives to split rock [BLASTER (mine & quarry)]. May drill holes into side of stone broken from mass, insert dogs or attach sling, and direct movement of stone from area. May be designated according to type of stone separated as Sandstone Splitter (mine & quarry). (references) |
| Splits rough dimension stone into smaller units, such as paving blocks, ashlar, or rubble, using airhammer, wedges, and shims: Scans stone to determine rift and grain lines of splitting, usually at right angles to each other. Chips rough edges from stone, using chipping hammer. May be designated according to product made as Paving-Block Cutter (stonework) II. May split rough slabs of slat into sheets for use as coping, flooring, and roofing and be designated Slate Splitter (stonework). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rock splitter | 8 |
hydraulic rock splitter | 4 |
darda rock splitter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: stockpiler. | |
-3 letters: portliest, stockpile, trickster, trisector. | |
-4 letters: cloister, coistrel, corkiest, costlier, cottiers, critters, leprotic, lockstep, lopstick, petrolic, pierrots, plotters, plottier, plotties, pockiest, poitrels, politest, porkiest, portlier, prickers, prickets, prickles, protects, rescript, restrict, rockiest, scripter, splitter, sportier, spottier, sprocket, stickler, stockier, strickle, stricter, ticklers, tipstock, trickers, trickles, triolets, triplets. | |
-5 letters: cirrose, citoles, coilers, colters, copiers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 43 4B 53 50 4C 49 54 54 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010011 01010000 01001100 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O C K   S P L I T T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0043 004B 0053 0050 004C 0049 0054 0054 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5249374525350464354543952 |
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