The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splintery \Splin"ter*y\ (spl[i^]n"t[~e]r*[y^]), a. Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having many splinters. 2 Given to splintering.
WordNet
adj. subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: slivery]
Usage examples of "splintery".
Jezebel was mighty proud of her inheritance from her pappy and in a pathetic fit of beautification planted a few geranimus and pansies in the hard packed ground fronting the splintery porch of the dwelling.
From 495, I took that recently widened, rough-shouldered road lined with dozens of brave, seedy new business establishments that repair lawn ornaments, reglaze kitchen appliances, sell giant, splintery wooden salad bowls, and offer lots of other services and goods that nobody wants.
The only furniture consisted of bench lockers with torn leather padding that doubled as bunks, a cold cookstove sitting in a tray of sand, a woodrack, and a splintery table.
The door was opened into the corridor, and while Mother played her only waltz, Jimbo and Monkey danced on the splintery boards as though it were a parquet floor, and Rogers pirouetted somewhat solemnly with Jane Anne.
He flew off the demolished table and crashed into the beadboard wall, making a splintery dent in that, too.
But he pointedly declined to bring his breeches into contact with the bench, a splintery improvisation strewn with pasty-flakes, pipe-ashes, and rat-shite.
Thunder bammed again, the sound so close and splintery this time that Peter jumped.
At the far side of the yard, Charles Barron had pushed aside a splintery plank so that he could examine a rusted lawn chair.
He fired once, from the hip, and the grenado exploded in midair, turning the flimsy wall between the storeroom and the lunchroom into a storm of destructive, splintery blowback.
There be a crack in the keel that I can put all my hand into, and the wood inside it is not splintery but feels like a hard sponge.
She could find nothing, except a few splintery scuff marks where someone had kicked at the wood.
Halfway down the trailer's length, it opens out into a living-room/dining-area furnished in classic trailer-trash style: there is a sagging couch, a battered TV set, a fake plug-in fireplace, a splintery dining table piled high with beer cans and dirty plates.
She lay on the floor, half under her cot, staring down at the soft splintery white pine floorboards of the cabin.