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Definition of Splinters
1. Noun. Wood in small pieces or splinters. "The vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
Definition of Splinters
1. Noun. (plural of splinter) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splinters
1. splinter [v] - See also: splinter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splinters
Literary usage of Splinters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"splinters. Small splinters may be removed from the flesh by means of a needle
... Larger splinters may be extracted by passing a knife blade several times ..."
2. Accidents and emergencies by Charles Winslow Dulles (1905)
"splinters are dangerous in proportion to their size and according to the part
... Small splinters may be picked out with a needle, or cut out with a sharp ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"The engineer testifies that the engine readily cut the obstruction out of its
way into splinters, and that, though he endeavored to stop the train, ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The subdivisions of a platform are called its planks, and the metaphor is sometimes
even run to death by giving the name of splinters to the subdivisions of ..."
5. A Treatise on Carriages: Comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons by William Felton, coachmaker William Felton (1794)
"splinters, OR SPLINTER BARS, Are the short bars which are hung to a hook at the
end of a pole, when leading horses are required : they are three in number; ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... or to unite the end of a rope to any part thereof, by splinters ; the pieces
of a ship's ride, masts, decks, &c., which, being knocked off by a shot, ..."
7. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"... chopped up the masks, prepared tea made with the splinters on the fire, and
drank it. People saw that no harm came to the priest, so they let the shaman ..."
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