Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apt to splinter: as, splintery wood.
- Consisting of or resembling splinters.
- In mineralogy, noting a fracture of minerals when the surface produced by breaking is slightly roughened by small projecting splinters or scales.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having many
splinters . - adjective Given to
splintering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
- adjective subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Etymologies
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Examples
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If exquisite can be applied to what ensued and the kind of splintery, fiery, bludgeoning death and maiming those Frenchmen, Spaniards and Englishmen met when, as England expected,
Jules Crittenden 2008
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Unable to sit still all of a sudden, she jumped up from the blanket and cruised the perimeter of the stall, tracing the splintery old wood with her fingers.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Behind a tall, splintery wooden desk, a girl looked up from a worn paperback and removed a wad of gum from her mouth.
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Other bulbs too, spring bulbs, that smell of earth, everything inside is being replaced by display-case fruit not for eating, marble grapes and frosty, splintery pears.
There Goes A Light Betsy Herbert 2011
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Unable to sit still all of a sudden, she jumped up from the blanket and cruised the perimeter of the stall, tracing the splintery old wood with her fingers.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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There were hurdles, swings, a long monkey bars, and a large fort built with splintery wood and lead pipes.
Anders: A Brief History Matthew J. Robinson 2011
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Unable to sit still all of a sudden, she jumped up from the blanket and cruised the perimeter of the stall, tracing the splintery old wood with her fingers.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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The rest of the house is in various states of ‘unfinished’ from splintery pine floors to wallpaperless, paintless walls.
Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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And at the heart of it all, the town of Jackson, with its splintery boardwalks and elk-horn sculptures, hilltop spas and gourmet cuisine.
Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011
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Unable to sit still all of a sudden, she jumped up from the blanket and cruised the perimeter of the stall, tracing the splintery old wood with her fingers.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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