He is no splitter of hairs, no quibbler.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
We ask ourselves anxiously if democracy has the unerring instinct to find such men to embody its wishes, or did it take him only for a talented rail-splitter-an average man?
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
It has been stated likewise that the people could not get their supplies at the stations if there was a cash system, as there would not be shops there, because the whole amount that is sold at the stations in the course of a year is merely nominal; and to show that, it is mentioned that it is usually an ordinary splitter who attends to the shop, or the fish factor.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie