| 单词 | to split a rail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto split a rail P3. North American. to split rails (also to split a rail): to split timber for rails, esp. for fencing; cf. rail-splitter n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > work with wood [verb (intransitive)] > split timber for rails to split a rail1710 1710 T. Nairn Let. S. Carolina 50 The Time..is spent in..splitting Rails, and making Fences round the Corn Ground and Pasture. 1714 J. Hempstead Diary 21 Aug. (1998) 37 I was at home al day spliting Railes & holing Posts. 1791 View N. Amer. iv. 90 A good workman can cut down, log off, and split 200 rails a day. 1820 Niles' Reg. 3 June 256/1 At 97 he went into the woods and split 100 chesnut rails in less than a day. 1864 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 15 Jan. He can cut a tree or split a rail as well as Abraham Lincoln. 1907 St. Nicholas Oct. 1078/1 You never split a rail in your life. 1961 D. C. Mearns Largely Lincoln 39 He never learned to spell and in his private correspondence he could split an infinitive as thoroughly as he could split a rail. 2003 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel (Nexis) 10 Aug. ac2 The cousins offer to give their visitor a demonstration of how to split a rail. < as lemmas |
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