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A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
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splinter
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood. 2 A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To come apart into long sharp fragments. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to break apart into ...
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n. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders" [syn: sliver , flinders ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s (transitive), from splinter (n.). Figurative sense from c.1600. Intransitive use from 1620s. Middle English had splinder (v.) "to shatter" (of a spear, etc.), mid-15c. Related: Splintered ; splintering .
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redirect Splinter (disambiguation)#Music
Usage examples of splinter.
He streaked acrost that log like it was a quarter-track, with the bark and splinters flying from under his hoofs, and if one foot had slipped a inch, it would of been Sally bar the door.
We have also seen in the numbered experiments that narrow splinters of quill and of very thin glass, affixed with shellac, caused only a slight degree of deflection, and this may perhaps have been due to the shellac itself.
At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.
This close, the nine-millimeter slugs would blow clean through his chest, splintering bone like balsa wood.
We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply.
Wood snapped, glass exploded and Barnacle, speckled with splinters, billowed through yellow velvet and out into the late afternoon!
A ball had smashed the rail, missed the mainmast by inches, and killed and crippled, mainly from splinters.
The wretch screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.
The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.
Even so, one stone struck a mantlet straight on, reducing it to a cloud of splinters and blood, then skipped further to crush another soldier.
They pressed on as branches fell all about them, as the ground shivered beneath their feet, as lightning dazzled in wave upon wave until day and night melded and splintered and here and there in the forest trees exploded into flame where lightning struck and dry limbs and dry leaves flashed and blazed.
Every niche was filled with them - skulls, thigh-bones, tiny metatarsals, fragments and splinters.
It bounced off a stay, collided with the midmast, then struck the deck with a splintering crash.
However, the barge crew remained unruffled during the wild ride, as they expertly plied their poles and steering oar to keep us in midstream and well away from the rock walls that could have ground us to splinters.
Her hand closed on something, but it was only the butt of dead Millwards halberd, a length of splintered wood.