The tallest stone of the circle was cleft, with a vertical split dividing the two massive pieces.
The blade's stinger had started a vertical split which trailed ten or twelve feet up the trunk.
Wedging my bone-thin fingers into a vertical split in the rock, I found a foothold and began the ascent.
But this approach - the so-called "vertical" split - might be messy and hard to enforce.
In June 2012 party suffered a vertical split.
Here a vertical split ran nearly to the peaks.
It's not split personality, or multiple personality, but a kind of vertical split in the way the mind functions.
Matthew was born with a bilateral cleft palate, a vertical split that extended from his upper lip to the base of his nose.
A spiral position in which the free leg is held up in a vertical split towards the side of the body, creating a Y position.
This is a wedge-shaped pure cleavage fracture and involves a vertical split of the lateral tibial plateau.