Rail-Splitter is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.
You can make 1004 anagrams from letters in rail-splitter (-aeiillprrstt).
An Americanism dating back to 1855-60; rail1 + splitter
Here is where Lincoln gained his great reputation as a rail-splitter.
A friend, with his eyes aglow, asked me what I thought of 'Abe' Lincoln, the rail-splitter.
It took me many years to find out what a rail-splitter was; but the rail-splitter's name was Lincoln, and he became my first hero.
What they seemed proudest of was that he had been a rail-splitter, for nearly all bore a fence-rail.
Well, I tell you: my old man is the rail-splitter, and my old master sent us to split rails, and dat is all we does.
Ludicrous perhaps, but to the point; the "rail-splitter" was not always dignified, but often judicious.
People who doubted the will or the wisdom of their rail-splitter Candidate need have had no fear.
The rail-splitter of the Sangamon became the most honored and respected man of his generation.
These rails have become classical in our history, and the name of rail-splitter has been more than the degree of a college.
They disliked to hear so much about "honest Old Abe," "the rail-splitter," "the flat-boatman," "the pioneer."