Definitions for splitter

splitter split·ter

Spelling: [split-er]
IPA: /ˈsplɪt ər/

Splitter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in splitter (eilprstt).

Definitions for splitter

noun

  1. a person or thing that splits.
  2. Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize differences between organisms and therefore favors a multiplicity of taxa (opposed to lumper).

Origin of splitter

First recorded in 1615-25; split + -er1

Examples for splitter

The splitter with one cut lays the fish open from head to tail and with another cut takes out the backbone.

The most important machines outside the working cylinder type are the splitter, and the glazer.

The cry echoed back short from a hundred Polack throats, and they sent a splitter; it was plain they were mad for blood.

On arriving at Peter Harbour he ran away, and hired himself as a splitter to the Newfoundland cod fishery.

The cashier had unlocked the street door for them, and Bartrow ran the splitter of hairs out to the sidewalk.

Their supply not being equal to the demand, one of them invented the ‘splitter.’

Word Value for splitter
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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