Wiktionary
n. (context dialectal English) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear. vb. 1 (context transitive dialectal English) To slit; tear or rip up. 2 (context transitive dialectal English) To wear away (clothes).
Wikipedia
Slite is a locality situated in Gotland Municipality, Gotland County, on the island of Gotland, Sweden with 1,500 inhabitants in 2014. For a long time Slite was an important place for trade and business; nowadays tourism is an important source of income but also industry with stone and gravel, producing concrete from raw material of limestone from nearby quarries. The landscape outside Slite is dominated by the Cementa AB limestone quarry.
In 1902–1953, Slite was connected to Roma by the Slite-Roma railway.
Usage examples of "slite".
SPIRIT OF RUMOUR That hatless, smoke-smirched shape There in the vale, is still the living Ney, His sabre broken in his hand, his clothes Slitten with ploughing ball and bayonet, One epaulette shorn away.