rail splitter
/ˈreɪl ˌsplɪtər/
noun
- A person who splits logs into rails for making fences, especially historically in the American frontier.
- Abraham Lincoln worked as a rail-splitter in his youth, splitting logs for fences.
- At the historical festival, a rail-splitter demonstrated how to use an axe to split logs into fence rails.
- The pioneer hired a rail-splitter to help clear the land and build a fence around the farm.
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