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Rail-splitter   Listen
Rail-splitter

noun
1.
A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences.  Synonym: splitter.





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"Rail-splitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... beginning to end for recognition. Carey, the great missionary, began life as a shoemaker; the chemist Vanquelin was the son of a peasant; the poet Burns was a farmer boy and a day laborer; Ben Jonson was a bricklayer; Livingstone, the traveler and explorer, was a weaver; Abraham Lincoln was a "rail-splitter" ...
— The Girl Wanted • Nixon Waterman


Words linked to "Rail-splitter" :   labourer, jack, manual laborer, laborer


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