英语词汇“the rail-splitter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A person who splits wood for rails, esp. for use in fencing (cf. split-rail fence at split adj. Compounds 2a(b)). Frequently in the (great, also old) rail-splitter: Abraham Lincoln (see Lincoln n.²). Hence: = republican n. 3c.

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1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff xliv. 349 He managed to gain his feet, and to stand erect, with his one arm extended, the fist being now doubled until it wore the appearance of an awful maul, such as the rail splitter employs in driving home his wedges.

1860 Congress. Globe 36th Congress 1 Sess. App. 462/2 They call him ‘Uncle Abe’, ‘Old Abe’, ‘Honest old Abe’, ‘The old rail-splitter’, ‘The flat-boatman’, &c.

1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 102/2 If any of our readers are inclined to doubt these statements we boldly refer them to the following paragraph taken from a recent issue of The Daily Railsplitter.

1864 A. Gurowski Diary 17 Sept. (1866) III. 350 I rejoice that Lincoln's mind is not befogged by that limited scholarship; and..I prefer the railsplitter to any narrow, classical hairsplitter.

1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee i. 19 I had taken an active part in the torchlight parades of the ‘Wide-awakes’ and ‘Rail-splitters’, as the political clubs of the Republicans were called.

1897 J. D. Hennessey New-Chum Farmer 1 Hire yourself out to a dairyman, take a contract with a rail-splitter, sign articles with a cockatoo selector, but don't touch land without knowing something about it.

1903 J. G. Nicolay in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VII. xvi. 548 Both classes very naturally doubted whether a rail-splitter candidate..possessed the wisdom and the strength of will to conquer a formidable rebellion.

1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap xi. 195 It is true that there was not, apparently, a gentleman's servant among them; they were rail-splitters, boatmen, tailors, artisans of sorts, but the combined effect was rather overwhelming.

1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick i. 11 James Agee described my face as ranking ‘almost with Lincoln's’. I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this.

2005 C. A. Tripp Intimate World of Lincoln 238 The Intimate World finally takes this topic out of the closet, where it has long been sequestered by the Lincoln establishment, despite the increasing curiosity of the general public about the rail splitter's sexual orientation.

单词	the rail-splitter
释义	> as lemmas the (great, also old) rail-splitter A person who splits wood for rails, esp. for use in fencing (cf. split-rail fence at split adj. Compounds 2a(b)). Frequently in the (great, also old) rail-splitter: Abraham Lincoln (see Lincoln n.²). Hence: = republican n. 3c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Republican Party > member or adherent of rail-splitter1853 republican1854 1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff xliv. 349 He managed to gain his feet, and to stand erect, with his one arm extended, the fist being now doubled until it wore the appearance of an awful maul, such as the rail splitter employs in driving home his wedges. 1860 Congress. Globe 36th Congress 1 Sess. App. 462/2 They call him ‘Uncle Abe’, ‘Old Abe’, ‘Honest old Abe’, ‘The old rail-splitter’, ‘The flat-boatman’, &c. 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 102/2 If any of our readers are inclined to doubt these statements we boldly refer them to the following paragraph taken from a recent issue of The Daily Railsplitter. 1864 A. Gurowski Diary 17 Sept. (1866) III. 350 I rejoice that Lincoln's mind is not befogged by that limited scholarship; and..I prefer the railsplitter to any narrow, classical hairsplitter. 1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee i. 19 I had taken an active part in the torchlight parades of the ‘Wide-awakes’ and ‘Rail-splitters’, as the political clubs of the Republicans were called. 1897 J. D. Hennessey New-Chum Farmer 1 Hire yourself out to a dairyman, take a contract with a rail-splitter, sign articles with a cockatoo selector, but don't touch land without knowing something about it. 1903 J. G. Nicolay in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VII. xvi. 548 Both classes very naturally doubted whether a rail-splitter candidate..possessed the wisdom and the strength of will to conquer a formidable rebellion. 1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap xi. 195 It is true that there was not, apparently, a gentleman's servant among them; they were rail-splitters, boatmen, tailors, artisans of sorts, but the combined effect was rather overwhelming. 1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick i. 11 James Agee described my face as ranking ‘almost with Lincoln's’. I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this. 2005 C. A. Tripp Intimate World of Lincoln 238 The Intimate World finally takes this topic out of the closet, where it has long been sequestered by the Lincoln establishment, despite the increasing curiosity of the general public about the rail splitter's sexual orientation. extracted from rail-splittern. < as lemmas
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