splittern.²

Brit.

/ˈsplɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈsplɪdər/

Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix¹.

a. One who, or that which, splits or cleaves, in various senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > one who or that which cleaves or splits

cleaver1483

splitter1648

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Kliever, a Cleaver, or a Splitter.

1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Rajador, a Hewer, a Cleaver, a Splitter.

1732 J. Swift in Gentleman's Mag. 2 821 How shou'd we rejoice, if..These Splitters of Parsons in sunder shou'd burst.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1141 The splitter begins by dividing the block [of slate]..to a proper size.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iv. 77 For lap~work, a tool called a splitter is employed to make a split in one of the edges.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 144 It is taken from the annealing-kiln..to be cut up by the ‘splitter’ to the best advantage.

b. spec. One employed in splitting fish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > splitter of fish

splitter1623

1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 82 Seuen are to be skilfull headders, and splitters of fish.

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 91 The Splitters immediately split them, beginning at the Tail, and so continue to the Head, close by the back Fin.

1761 Ann. Reg., Chron. 188/2 Every boat~master, splitter, and master voyage [sic], who are the chief people among the fishermen.

1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 519 A splitter, as he is called, then, with a large knife, cuts a fish open from the head to the tail.

1883 L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 16 The splitter now seizes the fish, and with a single stroke of his knife he removes the back bone.

c. Australian. A wood-cutter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

wood-hewerc1000

wooderc1050

hagger1294

wood-hagger1294

feller1422

woodman1426

faller1614

wood-maker1616

forest-feller1618

axeman1671

holt-felstera1678

stocker1686

bayman1715

logger1734

wood-cutter1758

lumberer1809

lumbermana1817

shantyman1824

chopper1827

splitter1841

bushman1846

mahogany cutter1850

piner1871

bush-faller1882

lumberjack1888

bushwhacker1898

home guard1903

Jack1910

gyppo1912

timber-getter1912

timberjack1916

timber beast1919

1841 in Lang Phillipsland (1847) 133 Mokitte shot near Mount Cole; it is said by a (timber) Splitter.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Splitter, a name in Tasmania for a wood-cutter.

1870 A. L. Gordon Bush Ballads 32 At the splitter's tent I had seen the track of horse-hoofs.

d. An auxiliary set of gears that provides a set of ratios between those of the main gearbox. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > which allows change of speed or direction

kick-down1909

splitter1963

1963 Automobile Engineer LIII. 228/2 An overdrive in front of the gearbox can be used as a splitter gear..to provide intermediate ratios between any two of the gearbox. These can be engaged without operating the clutch.

1967 Economist 8 July (Commercial Vehicles Suppl.) p. xxx/1 Even when there are enough speeds in the splitter box (which may be either in front or behind the normal box) rear axles are getting more complicated.

1977 Belfast Tel. 27 Jan. 21/8 (advt.) 1969 Leyland Super Commet, 6-wheel Tipper, fitted with p.a.s., splitter box, 401 engine.

1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load ii. 32 ‘How many gears have you got?’ ‘Thirteen forward and two reverse.’..‘It's got a splitter.’ Sally said..‘You don't have to move the gear lever thirteen times.’

2. figurative.

a. In phrases: One who makes fine or subtle distinctions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of

ergonist1593

ergo1597

subtilist1610

subtilizer1611

ob-and-soller1678

ergoteerer1687

splitter1699

ergotist1739

subtlist1829

straw-splitter1844

hair-splitter1851

pilpulist1859

ergoteur1881

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Splitter-of-Causes, a Lawyer.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 32/1 Of which they were as well qualified to judge as the most acute and subtil splitter of cases in all the courts.

1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd I. vi. 131 The splitter of metaphysical straws and chopper of logic.

b. One who favours minute subdivision in scientific classification.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > system of > proponent of

systematic1662

systematist1700

systemist1714

methodist1753

taxonomist1835

lumper1857

taxonomer1881

splitter1887

taxinomist1899

cytotaxonomist1937

biosystematist1943

pheneticist1965

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > concerned with structure or classification > minutely

splitter1887

1887 Darwin's Life & Lett. II. 105 (note) Those who make many species are the ‘splitters’, and those who make few are the ‘lumpers’.

1898 Athenæum 22 Jan. 123/1 Babington belonged to that category of botanists..denominated ‘splitters’.

3. A splitting headache.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head

headwarkeOE

headacheOE

headachinga1400

sodac1540

sood1547

a sore (Sc. sair) headc1550

raging1561

cephalalgy1607

head1783

splitter1860

headachiness1862

1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel the Widower v, in Cornhill Mag. May 584 I have got such a splitter of a headache.

1886 Punch 27 Nov. 263 Next morning Mr. Dumpkin has a headache, such a Splitter!!

4. One who causes splitting of votes.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > the numerical result of voting > split vote > one who causes

splitter1895

1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/2 The figure cut by the splitters themselves has in all cases been very poor.

5. Hunting slang. A first-rate hunt.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > a hunt or expedition

huntinga950

hunting-matcha1637

maroon1779

drive1795

chevy1837

splitter1843

burning chase1854

1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 219 ‘What a fine country before us!’ observes a third; ‘what a splitter we shall have!’ says a fourth.

1976 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 16 Dec. 25/2 There was more than a holding scent and..we were in for a splitter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

splitterv.

Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix⁵, or < German splittern.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsplitter.

rare.

intransitive. To break into fragments.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst

to-burstc893

forbursta1000

springOE

to-flyc1000

to-shootc1000

to-springc1000

to-drevea1225

to-resea1225

to-breakc1230

to go shiversc1275

to-drivec1275

to-rivec1275

to-shenec1275

to-wendc1275

debruise1297

lash13..

to-dashc1300

to-scatter13..

to-shiver13..

shiverc1330

bequash1377

shinderc1390

brasta1400

bursta1400

to-shiderc1450

to fly in pieces1488

sprent1488

splindera1500

reavec1560

dishiver1562

shatter1567

disshiver1586

split1590

slent1608

besplit1638

disrupt1657

splintera1661

rupture1734

explode1784

to ding in staves1786

to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798

spell1811

to go (also run) smash1818

to play smash1841

bust1844

splitter1860

disrump1886

to fall into staves1895

smash1904

1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers Atlas..would drop the moon..on to the white marble floor, and it would splitter into perdition.

1896 Daily News 29 Apr. 7/3 Called of God to save Russia from the ‘splittering’ which has filled Europe with rival creeds.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	splitter
释义	† splittern.¹ Etymology: < Low German splitter (German splitter, Swedish splittra), related to splîten to split. Obsolete. A splinter. (Cf. spleter n.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter shiverc1275 spillc1300 spelda1375 splint1398 splinter1398 slicea1400 splinderc1440 spilderc1475 spelder1530 spell1545 splitter1546 spleter1548 spilt1577 shivering1589 skilfer1598 spelcha1605 slifter1606 spilter?1646 slappet1768 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. xi. 54 b The winter garlandes..which are made of wode splitters or Iuerie died with many colores began to be had in quotidian usage. 1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xxxviii. 168 The seuenth encounter was between Iohn Marshal and Bouciquaut, who was somewhat hurt with a splitter. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xii. 120 Theie meete amidd:..so that bothe brokenn splitters flewe in th' aier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). splittern.² Brit. /ˈsplɪtə/, U.S. /ˈsplɪdər/ Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. One who, or that which, splits or cleaves, in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > one who or that which cleaves or splits cleaver1483 splitter1648 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Kliever, a Cleaver, or a Splitter. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Rajador, a Hewer, a Cleaver, a Splitter. 1732 J. Swift in Gentleman's Mag. 2 821 How shou'd we rejoice, if..These Splitters of Parsons in sunder shou'd burst. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1141 The splitter begins by dividing the block [of slate]..to a proper size. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iv. 77 For lap~work, a tool called a splitter is employed to make a split in one of the edges. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 144 It is taken from the annealing-kiln..to be cut up by the ‘splitter’ to the best advantage. b. spec. One employed in splitting fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > splitter of fish splitter1623 1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 82 Seuen are to be skilfull headders, and splitters of fish. c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 91 The Splitters immediately split them, beginning at the Tail, and so continue to the Head, close by the back Fin. 1761 Ann. Reg., Chron. 188/2 Every boat~master, splitter, and master voyage [sic], who are the chief people among the fishermen. 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 519 A splitter, as he is called, then, with a large knife, cuts a fish open from the head to the tail. 1883 L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 16 The splitter now seizes the fish, and with a single stroke of his knife he removes the back bone. c. Australian. A wood-cutter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1841 in Lang Phillipsland (1847) 133 Mokitte shot near Mount Cole; it is said by a (timber) Splitter. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Splitter, a name in Tasmania for a wood-cutter. 1870 A. L. Gordon Bush Ballads 32 At the splitter's tent I had seen the track of horse-hoofs. d. An auxiliary set of gears that provides a set of ratios between those of the main gearbox. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > which allows change of speed or direction kick-down1909 splitter1963 1963 Automobile Engineer LIII. 228/2 An overdrive in front of the gearbox can be used as a splitter gear..to provide intermediate ratios between any two of the gearbox. These can be engaged without operating the clutch. 1967 Economist 8 July (Commercial Vehicles Suppl.) p. xxx/1 Even when there are enough speeds in the splitter box (which may be either in front or behind the normal box) rear axles are getting more complicated. 1977 Belfast Tel. 27 Jan. 21/8 (advt.) 1969 Leyland Super Commet, 6-wheel Tipper, fitted with p.a.s., splitter box, 401 engine. 1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load ii. 32 ‘How many gears have you got?’ ‘Thirteen forward and two reverse.’..‘It's got a splitter.’ Sally said..‘You don't have to move the gear lever thirteen times.’ 2. figurative. a. In phrases: One who makes fine or subtle distinctions. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of ergonist1593 ergo1597 subtilist1610 subtilizer1611 ob-and-soller1678 ergoteerer1687 splitter1699 ergotist1739 subtlist1829 straw-splitter1844 hair-splitter1851 pilpulist1859 ergoteur1881 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Splitter-of-Causes, a Lawyer. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 32/1 Of which they were as well qualified to judge as the most acute and subtil splitter of cases in all the courts. 1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd I. vi. 131 The splitter of metaphysical straws and chopper of logic. b. One who favours minute subdivision in scientific classification. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > system of > proponent of systematic1662 systematist1700 systemist1714 methodist1753 taxonomist1835 lumper1857 taxonomer1881 splitter1887 taxinomist1899 cytotaxonomist1937 biosystematist1943 pheneticist1965 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > concerned with structure or classification > minutely splitter1887 1887 Darwin's Life & Lett. II. 105 (note) Those who make many species are the ‘splitters’, and those who make few are the ‘lumpers’. 1898 Athenæum 22 Jan. 123/1 Babington belonged to that category of botanists..denominated ‘splitters’. 3. A splitting headache. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head headwarkeOE headacheOE headachinga1400 sodac1540 sood1547 a sore (Sc. sair) headc1550 raging1561 cephalalgy1607 head1783 splitter1860 headachiness1862 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel the Widower v, in Cornhill Mag. May 584 I have got such a splitter of a headache. 1886 Punch 27 Nov. 263 Next morning Mr. Dumpkin has a headache, such a Splitter!! 4. One who causes splitting of votes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > the numerical result of voting > split vote > one who causes splitter1895 1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/2 The figure cut by the splitters themselves has in all cases been very poor. 5. Hunting slang. A first-rate hunt. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > a hunt or expedition huntinga950 hunting-matcha1637 maroon1779 drive1795 chevy1837 splitter1843 burning chase1854 1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 219 ‘What a fine country before us!’ observes a third; ‘what a splitter we shall have!’ says a fourth. 1976 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 16 Dec. 25/2 There was more than a holding scent and..we were in for a splitter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). splitterv. Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix⁵, or < German splittern.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsplitter. rare. intransitive. To break into fragments. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst to-burstc893 forbursta1000 springOE to-flyc1000 to-shootc1000 to-springc1000 to-drevea1225 to-resea1225 to-breakc1230 to go shiversc1275 to-drivec1275 to-rivec1275 to-shenec1275 to-wendc1275 debruise1297 lash13.. to-dashc1300 to-scatter13.. to-shiver13.. shiverc1330 bequash1377 shinderc1390 brasta1400 bursta1400 to-shiderc1450 to fly in pieces1488 sprent1488 splindera1500 reavec1560 dishiver1562 shatter1567 disshiver1586 split1590 slent1608 besplit1638 disrupt1657 splintera1661 rupture1734 explode1784 to ding in staves1786 to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798 spell1811 to go (also run) smash1818 to play smash1841 bust1844 splitter1860 disrump1886 to fall into staves1895 smash1904 1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers Atlas..would drop the moon..on to the white marble floor, and it would splitter into perdition. 1896 Daily News 29 Apr. 7/3 Called of God to save Russia from the ‘splittering’ which has filled Europe with rival creeds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1546n.²1623v.1860
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