Definition of splinter

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Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..

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Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.
Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
Splinterproof :: 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 :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..
Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..
Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Obsidian :: Obsidian (n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters..
Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..
Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..
Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..
Shiver :: Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..
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