Splinter
['splɪntə] or ['splɪntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; 'he got a splinter in his finger'; 'it broke into slivers'.
(verb.) break up into splinters or slivers; 'The wood splintered'.
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
(v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
(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.
Editor: Randolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Split (into thin pieces), shiver.
v. n. Be split (into thin pieces), be shivered.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of splinters sticking into your flesh, denotes that you will have many vexations from members of your family or from jealous rivals. If while you are visiting you stick a splinter in your foot, you will soon make, or receive, a visit which will prove extremely unpleasant. Your affairs will go slightly wrong through your continued neglect.
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Examples
- Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Among so many gallant knights, will none dare splinter a spear with Richard? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This notice he stuck upon the door with a small sharp splinter of wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If those eyes of yours were bed-winches, returned Miss Pross, and I was an English four-poster, they shouldn't loose a splinter of me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It consisted of a thin splinter of dried wood, the top of which was dipped in a mixture of one part of chlorate of potass, two of sulphide of antimony, and one of gum. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He wanted a more homogeneous material than thread, and he began to try carbonizing everything he could lay his hands on, straw, paper, cardboard, splinters of wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You did right to hold fast to each other, I said: as if the monster- splinters were living things, and could hear me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then he stared at the pile of little pieces that lay before him like a bundle of splinters. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- See if you can knock a few of those boats to splinters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It had been carried out and had been dashed savagely against the garden wall, under which its splintered fragments were discovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The postern gate shakes, continued Rebecca; it crashes--it is splintered by his blows--they rush in--the outwork is won--Oh, God! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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