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Noun: splitter  spli-tu(r)
  1. A labourer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
    "Abraham Lincoln was known as a rail-splitter in his youth";
    - rail-splitter
     
  2. A worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
    "The fish splitter worked quickly to prepare the catch for market"
     
  3. A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
    "The splitter argued for separating the species based on slight variations in coloration";
    - divider

Derived forms: splitters

Type of: jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist, worker

Encyclopedia: Splitter, Mark