noun. A sharp, slender piece, as of wood, bone, glass, or metal, split or broken off from a main body.

noun. A splinter group.

intransitive verb. To split or break into sharp, slender pieces; form splinters.

intransitive verb. To cause to splinter. synonym: break.

noun. A sharp-edged fragment of anything split or shivered off more or less in the direction of its length; a thin piece (in proportion to its length) of wood or other solid substance rent from the main body; a splint.

To split or rend into long thin pieces; shiver.

To support by a splint, as a broken limb; splint.

To be split or rent into long pieces; shiver.

noun. A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver.

noun. The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

intransitive verb. To become split into long pieces.

transitive verb. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver.

transitive verb. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

noun. A long, sharp fragment of material; often wood.

noun. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.

verb. To come apart into long sharp fragments.

verb. To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.

verb. To break, or cause to break, into factions.

verb. withdraw from an organization or communion

verb. break up into splinters or slivers

noun. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

verb. divide into slivers or splinters

"Onward and upward he led until all at once we reached a narrow platform, railed round and hung about with plaited rope screens which he called splinter-mats, over which I had a view of land and water, of ships and basins, of miles of causeways and piers, none of which had been in existence before the war."

splint  splinter up  

splintered  splintering  

bit  break  breakup  carve up  chip  

Sprinter  Winter  midwinter  minter  overwinter  

ash  bit  boulder  char  chip  

atomize  bit  black sheep  blemish  breach  

splintered  splintering  splinters