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adj. Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Apt to splinter: as, splintery wood.
Consisting of or resembling splinters.
In mineralogy, noting a fracture of minerals when the surface produced by breaking is slightly roughened by small projecting splinters or scales.
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adj. resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
adj. subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Word Usage
"If exquisite can be applied to what ensued and the kind of splintery, fiery, bludgeoning death and maiming those Frenchmen, Spaniards and Englishmen met when, as England expected,"