A Topical Dictionary: Search for splinter

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. i.
To become split into long pieces.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Splinter \Splin"ter\, n. [See Splinter, v., or Splint, 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.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splintered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Splintering.] [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See
Splint, n., Split.]
1. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as,
the lightning splinters a tree.
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After splintering their lances, they wheeled about,
and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy.
--Prescott.
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2. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a
broken limb. --Bp. Wren.
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WordNet splinter
n : a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a
splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders" [syn: sliver,
flinders]
v 1: withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break
up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" [syn:
secede, break away]
2: divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver]
3: break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
[syn: sliver]

Moby Dictionary
atomize , bit , black sheep , blemish , breach , break ,
break into pieces , break to pieces , break up , breakage ,
breakaway group , burst , butt , camp , caucus , chip , chunk , cleft ,
clip , clipping , collop , crack , crash , crumb , crunch , crush , cut ,
cut to pieces , cutting , demolish , diffuse , disintegrate , disperse ,
disrupt , division , dollop , end , ethnic group , faction , fission ,
fissure , foreign body , foreign intruder , fracture , fragment , gap ,
gob , gobbet , grind , gruel , hunk , impurity , interest ,
interest group , intruder , lath , lump , make mincemeat of ,
mere shadow , mince , minority group , misfit , modicum , moiety ,
monkey wrench , morceau , morsel , mote , nip , oddball , offshoot ,
paper , paring , particle , party , pash , patch , piece ,
political party , pressure group , pulverize , rail , rake , rasher ,
rent , rift , rip , rive , rupture , scale , scatter , scoop , scrap , sect ,
shadow , shard , shatter , shaving , shiver , shred , side ,
silent majority , skeleton , slash , slat , slice , slip , slit , sliver ,
smash , smash up , smatter , smithereen , snack , snatch , snick , snip ,
snippet , soup , speck , splinter group , split , squash , squish ,
stitch , stone , streak , stump , tag , tatter , tear , vein ,
vocal minority , wafer , weed , wing

FOLDOC SPLINTER

A PL/I interpreter with debugging features.

[Sammet 1969, p.600].

(1995-01-19)