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Splitter

noun

A worker who splits fish and removes the backbone.

A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics. Synonym: divider. Antonym: lumper.

A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences. Synonym: rail-splitter.

Split

adjective

Having been divided; having the unity destroyed. Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented. "A league of disunited nations" , "A fragmented coalition" , "A split group"

(especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.

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"Splitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... time. His series of actions with respect to Mancio lost him all judicial favour. His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake. Luis de Leon was, as a rule, so unaccommodating that some of his judges may have begun to think they understood why he was not universally popular with members of his own ...

— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

... all. It is only a matter of a few days until every state in the lower south goes out, but we want also and we need greatly those on the border, famous states like your Kentucky and Virginia. Do you not see how you are threatened? With the triumph of the rail-splitter, Lincoln, the seat of power is transferred to the North. It is not alone a question of slavery. The balance of the Union is destroyed. The South loses leadership. Her population is not increasing rapidly, and ...

— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

... several letters to the orator, thanking him for what he had done. It was in one of these letters that Lincoln wrote, "The only sermons I have ever been able to read and enjoy are those of John Murray"—a statement which some have attempted to smile away as showing the Rail-Splitter's astute diplomacy. ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... scratches, black eyes and bloody noses swelling the horrors of the scene! Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head-over-heels, rough-and-tumble! Dunder and blixum! swore the Dutchmen; splitter and splutter! cried the Swedes. Storm the works! shouted Hardkoppig Peter. Fire the mine roared stout Risingh. Tanta-rar-ra-ra! twanged the trumpet of Antony Van Corlear;—until all voice and sound became unintelligible,—grunts of pain, yells of fury, and shouts of triumph ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... primitive rudeness, and the future President split the rails for the fence to inclose the lot. These rails have become classical in our history, and the name of rail-splitter has been more than the degree of a college. Not that the splitter of rails is especially meritorious, but because the people are proud to trace aspiring talent to humble beginnings, and because they found ...

— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various