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Splinter   /splˈɪntər/   Listen
noun
Splinter  n.  A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
Splinter bar.
(a)
A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.
(b)
The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.


verb
Splinter  v. t.  (past & past part. splintered; pres. part. splintering)  
1.
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. "After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and... abandoned the field to the enemy."
2.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.


Splinter  v. i.  To become split into long pieces.





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"Splinter" Quotes from Famous Books



... told their own story. One long, horrified look was enough for Mary. The others hung over the spot as if it held some unexplainable fascination, pointing out the step which tripped her first, the rusty nail to which still clung a shred of her dress torn out in falling, the jagged splinter that must have been the one which made the ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston
... joy for her! whene'er in winter The winds at night had made a rout, And scatter'd many a lusty splinter, And many a rotten bough about. Yet never had she, well or sick, As every man who knew her says, A pile before hand, wood or stick, Enough to ...
— Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I. • William Wordsworth
... nothing but the signal for retreat saved this frigate from destruction. "What will Nelson think of us?" was Riou's mournful exclamation when he unwillingly drew off. He had been wounded in the head by a splinter, and was sitting on a gun, encouraging his men, when, just as the AMAZON showed her stern to the Trekroner battery, his clerk was killed by his side; and another shot swept away several marines who were hauling in the ...
— The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson • Robert Southey
... was thus employed one morning a splinter flew up and wounded one of his eyes. An inflammation took place; he lost the sight of that eye, and subsequently of the other. Poor Joe gradually pined away, and grew melancholy. Colonel Wildman ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving
... let me see what you have written," said Rameau, somewhat imperiously, in the sharp voice habitual to him, and which pierced Graham's ear like a splinter of glass. ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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