splitter
- n a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
- n a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- n a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- The projector may thus be any standard make but is also fitted with a beam splitter which sets the two pictures almost over each other on the screen.
- Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself.
- Bancroft was, admittedly, a Democrat, but many self-respecting Republicans were also concerned about the implications of having an untried, self-educated "rail splitter" as a .