What's the difference between slitter and spitter?

Slitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, slits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even as the throat-slitters took control, Assad’s pilots were continuing to drop barrel bombs on the refugees.

Spitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
  • (n.) One who puts meat on a spit.
  • (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.