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Splintery   /splˈɪntəri/   Listen
Splintery

adjective
1.
Subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces.
2.
Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points.  Synonym: slivery.






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"Splintery" Quotes from Famous Books



... mark of lovers' knives, as in the days of Musidora and her swain,—the yellow birch, rough as the breast of Silenus in old marbles,—the wild cherry, its little bitter fruit lying unheeded at its foot,—and, soaring over all, the huge, coarse-barked, splintery-limbed, dark-mantled hemlock, in the depths of whose aerial solitudes the crow brooded on her nest unscared, and the gray squirrel lived unharmed till his incisors grew to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Splintery" :   breakable, splinter



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