splintern.

Brit.

/ˈsplɪntə/, U.S.

/ˈsplɪn(t)ər/

Forms: Middle English splynter, 1500s– splinter, 1600s splenter.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch splinter (Dutch and West Frisian splinter ), splenter (West Flemish splenter ), = Low German splinter (hence in German), splenter , related to splint n. Compare splinder n.

a. A rough (usually a comparatively long, thin, and sharp-edged) piece of wood, bone, stone, etc., split or broken off, esp. as the result of violent impact; a chip, fragment, or shiver.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off

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sliverc1374

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speelc1440

spelkc1440

splinderc1440

spilderc1475

spalea1500

spelcha1605

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter

shiverc1275

spillc1300

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splint1398

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splinderc1440

spilderc1475

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splitter1546

spleter1548

spilt1577

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spelcha1605

slifter1606

spilter?1646

slappet1768

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. vii A reod..hurteþ þe hande sone wiþ splynters.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 9 The staf brake,..and the pece and the splinter therof lepte, and smote oute the ladies eye.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 56 It draweth forth thornes and Splinters or shivers.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 25 His arrowes were fiue quarters long, headed with the splinters of a white christall-like stone.

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xxix. 6 God..maketh those huge trees, the splinters of them, to flie up into the air.

1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 161 The bomb,..a splinter of which struck the lady.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (Rtldg.) 478/1 An arrow shattered the bone in such a manner, that splinters were taken out.

1801 Col. Stewart in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) IV. 308 A shot through the mainmast knocked a few splinters about us.

1841 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone vi. 116 Almost..every splinter of sandstone, every limestone nodule, contained its organism.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 59 The best means of drilling holes in glass is by using a splinter of a diamond.

b. figurative and in figurative context.

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1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Father & Sons Ile make such a splinter runne into your wits, as shal make them ranckle till you become fooles.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xx. 207 He fears not to have the splinters of his party (when it breaks) flie into his eyes.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry in Wks. (1720) I. 245 This Vein of Conceit seemed proper for such Scraps or Splinters into which Poetry was broken.

1730 Young Ep. fr. Oxf. 184 Satire recoils whenever charg'd too high, Round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell (1857) 95 The splinters and the accidents That flash from every deed of crime.

c. Used (chiefly with negatives) to denote a very small piece or amount, or something of little or no value.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount

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notchet1637

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twopence1691

turn of the scale(s)1706

enough to swear by1756

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infinitesimal1840

smidgen1841

snuff1842

fluxion1846

smitchel1856

eyelash1860

smidge1866

tenpenceworth1896

whisker1913

tidge1986

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > very small piece

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smitch1822

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scrapling1843

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parcel1873

scrappet1901

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 280 Heele say..The Grecian dames are sun-burnt, and not worth The splinter of a Launce.

1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Raigne Iames 56 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames It is..the..Custome and pure Nature of Humanity to venerate the least splinter of Antiquity.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 320 As for the Ship he talked of, they were resolutely bent not to part with the least Splinter of it.

1769 J. Home Fatal Discov. ii She is not worth the splinter of a spear.

d. in or into splinters. Also all to splinters, completely, thoroughly.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase]

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(all) to shiversc1275

to piecesc1300

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to set in sunderc1325

in sunderc1390

in, into shredsc1400

in small1419

in piecemeal?a1425

in piecemealsa1470

by piecemeals1576

in shivers1589

in or into splinters1612

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly

well-a-finec1330

well and truly1348

well and finec1430

of all four sides1490

à fond1813

all to splinters1884

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 206 With the fearfull shock, Their speares in splinters flew.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 172 When the bone broken into Splinters, is thrust inward.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋2 Looking-Glasses..sometimes shivered into ten thousand Splinters.

1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad viii. 258 Short from the steel, the staff in splinters broke.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 117 Into fiery splinters leapt the lance.

1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 159 We beat Flinn all to splinters.

e. A sharp piece of rock projecting from the main body.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > splinter

splinter1860

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 94 A cliff, which afforded us..some protruding splinters to lay hold of by the hands.

f. transferred. A long light narrow boat.

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1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River i She was a beauty, that long splinter of a boat.

g. A splinter group (see sense Compounds 3 below). Originally and chiefly U.S.

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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > formed by rupture or schism

split1883

splinter1948

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group

cave1866

fraction1922

splinter group1935

splinter1948

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 1/2 The Republican party and its Dewey-Warren ticket, without ‘leftist or extreme right splinters’, is the nation's only hope ‘to put an end to disunity’.

1972 D. E. Westlake Bank Shot viii. 56 Probably a new splinter... They keep fractionalizing, makes it extremely difficult to keep proper surveillance.

1977 New Yorker 9 May 67/2 The old-guard splinter of the Congress which Mrs. Gandhi had routed in 1969.

1981 Listener 1 Jan. 24/1 A newly imaginative use of a Red Brigade splinter.

2. A surgical splint. Obsolete or dialect.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint

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splintc1400

shindle1598

splinter1598

junk1617

fish1666

starch bandage1838

starch splint1843

pistol-splint1860

Balkan splint1916

gutter-splint1919

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 46 The splinter must be made of stiffe paper, of latinn, or of any other substance.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xvi. 122 These splinters were like such, as I used to Bone-fractures.

1820 A. Cooper Surg. Ess. (ed. 2) 165 The under splinter was a firm excavated piece of deal.

a. A comparatively thin piece or slender strip of wood prepared or used for some particular purpose. Cf. splint n. 2.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > slender piece for specific purpose

splintc1325

splinter1648

minikin1852

sticker1893

minik1899

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Schindel, a Shingle, or a Splenter.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. iv. 37 The perpendicular splinters or Twigs of a Basket.

1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 307 The Roofs are made of thin Splinters of Fir.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 271 Piercing the stems or roots by a longitudinal cut through a joint, and keeping the wound open with a wedge or splinter.

b. Used as a torch, or dipped in tallow and used as a candle.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun] > wooden

brandc1385

tede1562

pine1592

candle-wood1634

pine knot1662

splinter1751

pitch knot1792

split1892

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Macclesfield Fir-trees..which are dug up for various uses, but chiefly for splinters, that serve the poor for candles.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 470 Some take with them little fascines of fat Pine splinters for torches.

1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 155 While his rosy daughter held a splinter to her mother.

1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 68 It was therefore lit up with splinters and flambeaux.

1862 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 24 Perusing a hymn-book by the light of a pine splinter.

†4. A fibre or filament of undressed hemp. Cf. shiver n.¹ 2. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > fibre of

shiver1440

splinter1673

1673 R. Boyle Of Great Efficacy iii. 15 in Ess. Effluviums The thrids or splinters of Hemp, the Rope was made up of.

†5. = splint n. 5. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours > tumour

spavin1426

ringbonec1465

blood spavin?1523

curb?1523

serew?1523

splint?1523

thorough-serewe?1523

thorough spavin?1523

windgall?1523

bone spavin1566

boneshavea1585

grape1600

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lichen1607

gorge1610

bog-spavin1631

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jardonc1720

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thorough-pin1789

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Rules for buying Horses If there be hard knots found on the inside of the Leg, they are Splinters.

6. elliptical. = splinter-bar n. 2. rare.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > bar fixed across head of shafts

splinter1794

splinter-bar1794

spreader bar1868

main-bar1897

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 79 The front bar to a single horse carriage, is what the draught is mostly taken from, by means of a splinter hung thereto.

1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband II. 68 The driver..appeared to have his doubts whether he should not object to my getting into the elegant vehicle, the splinter being certainly, in his opinion, more calculated for a person in my station.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. See also splinter-bar n., splinter-proof n. and adj.

splinter forceps n.

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1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 82 Splinter Forceps.

splinter-hoop n.

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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. iii. 374 A plain Indian Fan,..Made of the small stringy parts of Roots,..bound together with a Splinter-Hoop.

splinter wound n.

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1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 247 The splinter wound in his head burst out afresh.

C2.

splinter bid n. Bridge an unusual jump bid showing a singleton or void in the suit bid.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid

ask1872

overcall1890

rescue bid1912

game-goer1913

reverse bid1915

denial1916

rebid1916

overbid?1917

rescue?1917

under-call1923

jump1927

invitation1928

score-bid1928

approach1929

pre-empt1929

one-over-one1931

response1931

cue-bid1932

psychic1932

asking bid1936

reverse1936

shut-out1936

under-bid1945

controlled psychic1959

relay bid1959

raise1964

psych1965

multi1972

splinter bid1977

1977 Oxf. Times 11 Feb. 8/7 The bidding went: One Heart—pass—Three Spades (splinter bid showing a singleton or void together with a heart fit).

1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. c 25/2 For slam purposes, the splinter bid, or unusual jump to show a singleton or a void, solves many problems.

splinter-deck n. an armour-plated deck on a ship (see also quot. 1909).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > armour-plated deck

splinter-deck1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 346/2 A deck worked for protective purposes below a protective deck is called the splinter-deck.

1933 Jane's Fighting Ships 171 Above again is a 1¹/ ₁₅″ splinter deck against aerial attack.

1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 416/3 Splinter deck, a deck fitted with armor.

splinter haemorrhage n. a narrow, elongated hæmorrhage resembling one produced by a splinter.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood

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issuec1500

haemorrhagy?1541

bleeda1585

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falla1616

haemorrhage1671

saltation1672

persultation1706

fusion1725

haematosis1811

phleborrhagia1833

secondary haemorrhage1837

splinter haemorrhage1931

haemorrhaging1967

1931 W. Boyd Path. Internal Dis. i. 40 There may be small ‘splinter hemorrhages’ under the nail—a linear track as if a sliver had been run in.

1971 Robbins & Angell Basic Pathol. ix. 274/2 Seeding of the nail beds and of the skin produces small petechial hemorrhages known as ‘splinter hemorrhages’ or microabscesses.

splinter net n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water > netting

splinter-netting1799

boarding-netting1834

crinoline1867

torpedo-catcher1877

torpedo-net1885

splinter net1894

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > netting used for stowage or protection

netting1567

garland1769

gangway netting1794

splinter-netting1799

waist-nettings1849

splinter net1894

1894 Daily News 21 Mar. 5/2 Bulkheads, boats, splinter nets.

splinter-netting n. Nautical a net or netting of small rope spread on board a warship during action to protect the men from falling splinters.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water > netting

splinter-netting1799

boarding-netting1834

crinoline1867

torpedo-catcher1877

torpedo-net1885

splinter net1894

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > netting used for stowage or protection

netting1567

garland1769

gangway netting1794

splinter-netting1799

waist-nettings1849

splinter net1894

1799 Hull Advertiser 17 Aug. 4/2 The flames coming up the companion and setting fire to the splinter netting.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xvii. 262 The hatchways being covered over with a strong splinter netting.

splinter-new adj. [compare German splinterneu, Dutch splinternieuw, etc.] dialect quite new.

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1824– Splinter-new (in Sc., Cumbld., Yks. dial. glossaries and texts).

C3. General attributive or as adj. Of or pertaining to a group, party, etc., which splits itself off as an independent entity from a larger political or social group.

splinter group n. Originally North American.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group

cave1866

fraction1922

splinter group1935

splinter1948

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [adjective] > splinter group

splinter group1935

Adullamite1982

1935 Economist 19 Oct. 742/2 The new ‘splinter parties’, it will be observed—the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (farmer-labour), Mr. H. H. Stevens's ‘Reconstructionists’, and the Social Credit League—have hardly succeeded in making a scratch on the traditional surface of Canadian politics.

1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Jan. 5/2 He challenges the Republicans to dodge the stigma of reaction and encourages the Wallace ‘splinter groups’ to hold firm.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Feb. 8/3 While splinter minorities may have a voice in the legislature, they cannot extend that voice beyond their own minority base.

1950 Times 27 Feb. 5/3 The Cabinet is made up of an uneasy coalition of splinter parties.

1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 73/2 The formation of superior-minded splinter groups which have no wish to become part of the main body of the Church.

1968 Guardian 17 June 8/1 The ineffective splinter-group politics of the Fourth Republic.

1975 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. 26/2 The women's movement has increasingly allowed itself to be dominated..by radical splinter groups and issues which lack support among the majority of women.

splinter-segment n.

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1898 J. F. M. Middleton & D. Tait Tribes without Rulers 209 Splinter-segments of a clan do not form cores of tribes.

1964 R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit v. 43 The fourteen new splinter nations now beginning to flake off the edges of a ripely rich Soviet Russia.

1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times ix. 293 Malcolm X formed a splinter movement, the organization of Afro-American unity.

1979 D. Sanders Queen sends for Mrs. Chadwick 82 Supposing..the two main parties are dead~locked... They would have to turn to whatever splinter party happened to be closest to their own line.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

splinterv.

Brit.

/ˈsplɪntə/, U.S.

/ˈsplɪn(t)ər/

Etymology: < splinter n. Compare Dutch splinteren, West Frisian splinterje, Low German and German splintern; West Flemish splenteren.

a. transitive. To break or split into splinters or long narrow pieces, or in such a way as to leave a rough jagged end or projections.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst

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briteOE

to-shenec950

abreakOE

forgnidea1000

to-brytc1000

to-burstc1000

to-driveOE

shiverc1200

to-shiverc1200

to-reavec1225

shiverc1250

debruise1297

to-crack13..

to-frushc1300

to-sliftc1315

chinec1330

littlec1350

dingc1380

bruisea1382

burst1382

rushc1390

shinderc1390

spald?a1400

brittenc1400

pashc1400

forbruise1413

to break, etc. into sherds1426

shattera1450

truncheon1477

scarboyle1502

shonk1508

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rash1513

shidera1529

grind1535

infringe1543

dishiver1562

rupture1578

splinter1582

tear1582

disshiver1596

upburst1596

to burst up1601

diminish1607

confract1609

to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612

dishatter1615

vanquashc1626

beshiver1647

disfrange1778

smash1778

explode1784

bust1806

spell1811

smithereen1878

shard1900

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 The oars are cleene splintred.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 13^v My leane withered hands..are all to shiuerd and splinterd in their wide cases of skinne.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Engagement This mutual assault..battering, penetrating, and splintering the sides and decks.

1806 Monthly Mag. 21 403 A strong bull..splintered with his horns the upper post.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxxvii. 325 The trees that the storms have splintered are never of use.

1898 J. B. Wollocombe From Morn till Eve v. 48 The top of the pole..had been splintered, and was held together by a very thin shred.

b. figurative and in figurative context.

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1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 155 The Courtier, Scholler, Souldier, all in him, All dasht and splinterd thence.

1849 M. Arnold Mycerinus 99 While the deep-burnish'd foliage overhead Splinter'd the silver arrows of the moon.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 226 [He] sought To make disruption in the Table Round Of Arthur, and to splinter it into feuds.

c. To bring or cause to fall down, to break off or rend from, in splinters.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring or send down in fragments

shiver1759

splinter1807

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > in slivers or chips

chip?c1400

sliver1608

flake1661

spall1841

splinter1871

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 255 High from the decks the mortar's bursting fires Sweep the full streets, and splinter down the spires.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii. 320 Long lines of the débris that have been splintered by frost from the higher wall [of rock].

d. To form by shivering or splitting.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] > form by splitting

splinter1878

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 7 Five short days, sufficient hardly to entice, from out its den Splintered in the slab, this pink perfection of the cyclamen.

†2. To bind, fix, or secure by means of a splint or splints; = splint v. 2. Frequently figurative. Also with up. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)]

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fayOE

samc1000

join1297

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enjoinc1384

assemble1393

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withjoina1627

league1645

contignate1651

to bring on1691

splice1803

pan1884

suture1886

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint

spelkc1000

splint1543

splinter1720

spell1886

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 106 The broken rancour of your high swolne hearts, But lately splinterd, knit, and ioynd etogether.

a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaa2^v/2 Those men have broken credits, Loose and dismembred faiths..That splinter 'em with vows.

1659 M. Wren Monarchy Asserted 148 That Place, which I find..so strangely shattered, that it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confused Pieces of it.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 77 As to his Arm, he found one of the Bones broken..and this he set, and splinter'd it up, and bound his Arm in a Sling.

a. intransitive. To split; to break, burst, or fly into or to splinters or fragments; to come away in splinters.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst

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forbursta1000

springOE

to-flyc1000

to-shootc1000

to-springc1000

to-drevea1225

to-resea1225

to-breakc1230

to go shiversc1275

to-drivec1275

to-rivec1275

to-shenec1275

to-wendc1275

debruise1297

lash13..

to-dashc1300

to-scatter13..

to-shiver13..

shiverc1330

bequash1377

shinderc1390

brasta1400

bursta1400

to-shiderc1450

to fly in pieces1488

sprent1488

splindera1500

reavec1560

dishiver1562

shatter1567

disshiver1586

split1590

slent1608

besplit1638

disrupt1657

splintera1661

rupture1734

explode1784

to ding in staves1786

to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798

spell1811

to go (also run) smash1818

to play smash1841

bust1844

splitter1860

disrump1886

to fall into staves1895

smash1904

a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 48 This fforte was built of a kinde of stone not apt to splinter.

1802 J. Aikin Woodland Compan. (1815) 5 Oak-timber is fitted for this purpose [i.e. shipbuilding],..by the property of not readily splintering.

a1832 G. Crabbe Posthumous Tales x, in Poet. Wks. (1834) VIII. 162 The dry boughs splinter in the windy gale.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. ii. 99 When heated, it [i.e. anthracite] splinters into small fragments.

1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells i. i. 42 The boy..tugged at the iron ring till the rotten woodwork splintered away from the bolt.

b. poetic. To pierce through in the form of, or after the manner of, splinters.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > pierce or penetrate as a sharp thing

biteOE

delve?c1225

attamec1314

piercec1325

thrillc1330

ficche1388

traverse1477

through1578

splinter1821

stab1897

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 80 Stronger lightnings splinter through the cloud.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 213 The moon..Splinters through the broken glass.

c. figurative. To break off to form a splinter group or groups; loosely, to divide or split. Also with off.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)] > split into factions

schismatize1601

factionate1642

split1824

factionalize1949

splinter1967

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party > make division in party

schismatize1793

cave1881

splinter1967

1967 M. L. King Trumpet of Conscience iii. 49 Under the impact of social forces unique to their times, young people have splintered into three principal groups, though of course there is some overlap among the three.

1972 Guardian 11 Jan. 9/1 Later Frank Ashbourn joined them..and in May 1970 he and Mersh splintered off to form South Sea Bubble.

1976 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. July 11/1 But the village's young people, distressed at seeing the parishioners splinter off to other towns for church, asked to hold the new prayer assembly in place of Mass.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	splinter
释义	splintern. Brit. /ˈsplɪntə/, U.S. /ˈsplɪn(t)ər/ Forms: Middle English splynter, 1500s– splinter, 1600s splenter. Etymology: < Middle Dutch splinter (Dutch and West Frisian splinter ), splenter (West Flemish splenter ), = Low German splinter (hence in German), splenter , related to splint n. Compare splinder n. 1. a. A rough (usually a comparatively long, thin, and sharp-edged) piece of wood, bone, stone, etc., split or broken off, esp. as the result of violent impact; a chip, fragment, or shiver. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off spoonc725 spillc1300 sliverc1374 splinter1398 sprotea1400 speelc1440 spelkc1440 splinderc1440 spilderc1475 spalea1500 spelcha1605 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter shiverc1275 spillc1300 spelda1375 splint1398 splinter1398 slicea1400 splinderc1440 spilderc1475 spelder1530 spell1545 splitter1546 spleter1548 spilt1577 shivering1589 skilfer1598 spelcha1605 slifter1606 spilter?1646 slappet1768 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. vii A reod..hurteþ þe hande sone wiþ splynters. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 9 The staf brake,..and the pece and the splinter therof lepte, and smote oute the ladies eye. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 56 It draweth forth thornes and Splinters or shivers. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 25 His arrowes were fiue quarters long, headed with the splinters of a white christall-like stone. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xxix. 6 God..maketh those huge trees, the splinters of them, to flie up into the air. 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 161 The bomb,..a splinter of which struck the lady. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (Rtldg.) 478/1 An arrow shattered the bone in such a manner, that splinters were taken out. 1801 Col. Stewart in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) IV. 308 A shot through the mainmast knocked a few splinters about us. 1841 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone vi. 116 Almost..every splinter of sandstone, every limestone nodule, contained its organism. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 59 The best means of drilling holes in glass is by using a splinter of a diamond. b. figurative and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Father & Sons Ile make such a splinter runne into your wits, as shal make them ranckle till you become fooles. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xx. 207 He fears not to have the splinters of his party (when it breaks) flie into his eyes. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry in Wks. (1720) I. 245 This Vein of Conceit seemed proper for such Scraps or Splinters into which Poetry was broken. 1730 Young Ep. fr. Oxf. 184 Satire recoils whenever charg'd too high, Round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. 1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell (1857) 95 The splinters and the accidents That flash from every deed of crime. c. Used (chiefly with negatives) to denote a very small piece or amount, or something of little or no value. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount shredc1000 farthingsworthc1325 pennyworthc1330 incha1350 sliverc1374 chipa1393 gnastc1440 Jack1530 spoonful1531 crumba1535 spark1548 slight1549 pin's worth1562 scruple1574 thought1581 pinch1583 scrap1583 splinter1609 ticket1634 notchet1637 indivisible1644 tinyc1650 twopence1691 turn of the scale(s)1706 enough to swear by1756 touch1786 scrimptiona1825 infinitesimal1840 smidgen1841 snuff1842 fluxion1846 smitchel1856 eyelash1860 smidge1866 tenpenceworth1896 whisker1913 tidge1986 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > very small piece pointc1300 smitc1330 tittlea1450 scraplet1519 jot1526 splinter1609 bitling1674 shredling1674 frustulum1700 rissom1808 smitch1822 fractionlet1830 scrapling1843 pick1866 parcel1873 scrappet1901 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 280 Heele say..The Grecian dames are sun-burnt, and not worth The splinter of a Launce. View more context for this quotation 1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Raigne Iames 56 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames It is..the..Custome and pure Nature of Humanity to venerate the least splinter of Antiquity. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 320 As for the Ship he talked of, they were resolutely bent not to part with the least Splinter of it. 1769 J. Home Fatal Discov. ii She is not worth the splinter of a spear. d. in or into splinters. Also all to splinters, completely, thoroughly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 (all) to shiversc1275 to piecesc1300 asundera1325 to set in sunderc1325 in sunderc1390 in, into shredsc1400 in small1419 in piecemeal?a1425 in piecemealsa1470 by piecemeals1576 in shivers1589 in or into splinters1612 the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly well-a-finec1330 well and truly1348 well and finec1430 of all four sides1490 à fond1813 all to splinters1884 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 206 With the fearfull shock, Their speares in splinters flew. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 172 When the bone broken into Splinters, is thrust inward. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋2 Looking-Glasses..sometimes shivered into ten thousand Splinters. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad viii. 258 Short from the steel, the staff in splinters broke. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 117 Into fiery splinters leapt the lance. 1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 159 We beat Flinn all to splinters. e. A sharp piece of rock projecting from the main body. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > splinter splinter1860 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 94 A cliff, which afforded us..some protruding splinters to lay hold of by the hands. f. transferred. A long light narrow boat. ΚΠ 1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River i She was a beauty, that long splinter of a boat. g. A splinter group (see sense Compounds 3 below). Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > formed by rupture or schism split1883 splinter1948 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group cave1866 fraction1922 splinter group1935 splinter1948 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 1/2 The Republican party and its Dewey-Warren ticket, without ‘leftist or extreme right splinters’, is the nation's only hope ‘to put an end to disunity’. 1972 D. E. Westlake Bank Shot viii. 56 Probably a new splinter... They keep fractionalizing, makes it extremely difficult to keep proper surveillance. 1977 New Yorker 9 May 67/2 The old-guard splinter of the Congress which Mrs. Gandhi had routed in 1969. 1981 Listener 1 Jan. 24/1 A newly imaginative use of a Red Brigade splinter. 2. A surgical splint. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint spelkc1000 splintc1400 shindle1598 splinter1598 junk1617 fish1666 starch bandage1838 starch splint1843 pistol-splint1860 Balkan splint1916 gutter-splint1919 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 46 The splinter must be made of stiffe paper, of latinn, or of any other substance. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xvi. 122 These splinters were like such, as I used to Bone-fractures. 1820 A. Cooper Surg. Ess. (ed. 2) 165 The under splinter was a firm excavated piece of deal. 3. a. A comparatively thin piece or slender strip of wood prepared or used for some particular purpose. Cf. splint n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > slender piece for specific purpose splintc1325 splinter1648 minikin1852 sticker1893 minik1899 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Schindel, a Shingle, or a Splenter. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. iv. 37 The perpendicular splinters or Twigs of a Basket. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 307 The Roofs are made of thin Splinters of Fir. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 271 Piercing the stems or roots by a longitudinal cut through a joint, and keeping the wound open with a wedge or splinter. b. Used as a torch, or dipped in tallow and used as a candle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun] > wooden brandc1385 tede1562 pine1592 candle-wood1634 pine knot1662 splinter1751 pitch knot1792 split1892 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Macclesfield Fir-trees..which are dug up for various uses, but chiefly for splinters, that serve the poor for candles. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 470 Some take with them little fascines of fat Pine splinters for torches. 1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 155 While his rosy daughter held a splinter to her mother. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 68 It was therefore lit up with splinters and flambeaux. 1862 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 24 Perusing a hymn-book by the light of a pine splinter. †4. A fibre or filament of undressed hemp. Cf. shiver n.¹ 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > fibre of shiver1440 splinter1673 1673 R. Boyle Of Great Efficacy iii. 15 in Ess. Effluviums The thrids or splinters of Hemp, the Rope was made up of. †5. = splint n. 5. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours > tumour spavin1426 ringbonec1465 blood spavin?1523 curb?1523 serew?1523 splint?1523 thorough-serewe?1523 thorough spavin?1523 windgall?1523 bone spavin1566 boneshavea1585 grape1600 surot1601 hough-bony1607 lichen1607 gorge1610 bog-spavin1631 splint-bone1704 splinter1704 star1710 fuseec1720 jardonc1720 osseletc1720 jarde1727 thorough-pin1789 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Rules for buying Horses If there be hard knots found on the inside of the Leg, they are Splinters. 6. elliptical. = splinter-bar n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > bar fixed across head of shafts splinter1794 splinter-bar1794 spreader bar1868 main-bar1897 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 79 The front bar to a single horse carriage, is what the draught is mostly taken from, by means of a splinter hung thereto. 1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband II. 68 The driver..appeared to have his doubts whether he should not object to my getting into the elegant vehicle, the splinter being certainly, in his opinion, more calculated for a person in my station. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also splinter-bar n., splinter-proof n. and adj. splinter forceps n. ΚΠ 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 82 Splinter Forceps. splinter-hoop n. ΚΠ 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. iii. 374 A plain Indian Fan,..Made of the small stringy parts of Roots,..bound together with a Splinter-Hoop. splinter wound n. ΚΠ 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 247 The splinter wound in his head burst out afresh. C2. splinter bid n. Bridge an unusual jump bid showing a singleton or void in the suit bid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid ask1872 overcall1890 rescue bid1912 game-goer1913 reverse bid1915 denial1916 rebid1916 overbid?1917 rescue?1917 under-call1923 jump1927 invitation1928 score-bid1928 approach1929 pre-empt1929 one-over-one1931 response1931 cue-bid1932 psychic1932 asking bid1936 reverse1936 shut-out1936 under-bid1945 controlled psychic1959 relay bid1959 raise1964 psych1965 multi1972 splinter bid1977 1977 Oxf. Times 11 Feb. 8/7 The bidding went: One Heart—pass—Three Spades (splinter bid showing a singleton or void together with a heart fit). 1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. c 25/2 For slam purposes, the splinter bid, or unusual jump to show a singleton or a void, solves many problems. splinter-deck n. an armour-plated deck on a ship (see also quot. 1909). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > armour-plated deck splinter-deck1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 346/2 A deck worked for protective purposes below a protective deck is called the splinter-deck. 1933 Jane's Fighting Ships 171 Above again is a 1¹/ ₁₅″ splinter deck against aerial attack. 1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 416/3 Splinter deck, a deck fitted with armor. splinter haemorrhage n. a narrow, elongated hæmorrhage resembling one produced by a splinter. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood runeOE stranda1240 flux1377 bleedingc1385 rhexisc1425 issuec1500 haemorrhagy?1541 bleeda1585 sanguination1598 falla1616 haemorrhage1671 saltation1672 persultation1706 fusion1725 haematosis1811 phleborrhagia1833 secondary haemorrhage1837 splinter haemorrhage1931 haemorrhaging1967 1931 W. Boyd Path. Internal Dis. i. 40 There may be small ‘splinter hemorrhages’ under the nail—a linear track as if a sliver had been run in. 1971 Robbins & Angell Basic Pathol. ix. 274/2 Seeding of the nail beds and of the skin produces small petechial hemorrhages known as ‘splinter hemorrhages’ or microabscesses. splinter net n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water > netting splinter-netting1799 boarding-netting1834 crinoline1867 torpedo-catcher1877 torpedo-net1885 splinter net1894 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > netting used for stowage or protection netting1567 garland1769 gangway netting1794 splinter-netting1799 waist-nettings1849 splinter net1894 1894 Daily News 21 Mar. 5/2 Bulkheads, boats, splinter nets. splinter-netting n. Nautical a net or netting of small rope spread on board a warship during action to protect the men from falling splinters. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water > netting splinter-netting1799 boarding-netting1834 crinoline1867 torpedo-catcher1877 torpedo-net1885 splinter net1894 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > netting used for stowage or protection netting1567 garland1769 gangway netting1794 splinter-netting1799 waist-nettings1849 splinter net1894 1799 Hull Advertiser 17 Aug. 4/2 The flames coming up the companion and setting fire to the splinter netting. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xvii. 262 The hatchways being covered over with a strong splinter netting. splinter-new adj. [compare German splinterneu, Dutch splinternieuw, etc.] dialect quite new. ΚΠ 1824– Splinter-new (in Sc., Cumbld., Yks. dial. glossaries and texts). C3. General attributive or as adj. Of or pertaining to a group, party, etc., which splits itself off as an independent entity from a larger political or social group. splinter group n. Originally North American. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group cave1866 fraction1922 splinter group1935 splinter1948 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [adjective] > splinter group splinter group1935 Adullamite1982 1935 Economist 19 Oct. 742/2 The new ‘splinter parties’, it will be observed—the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (farmer-labour), Mr. H. H. Stevens's ‘Reconstructionists’, and the Social Credit League—have hardly succeeded in making a scratch on the traditional surface of Canadian politics. 1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Jan. 5/2 He challenges the Republicans to dodge the stigma of reaction and encourages the Wallace ‘splinter groups’ to hold firm. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Feb. 8/3 While splinter minorities may have a voice in the legislature, they cannot extend that voice beyond their own minority base. 1950 Times 27 Feb. 5/3 The Cabinet is made up of an uneasy coalition of splinter parties. 1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 73/2 The formation of superior-minded splinter groups which have no wish to become part of the main body of the Church. 1968 Guardian 17 June 8/1 The ineffective splinter-group politics of the Fourth Republic. 1975 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. 26/2 The women's movement has increasingly allowed itself to be dominated..by radical splinter groups and issues which lack support among the majority of women. splinter-segment n. ΚΠ 1898 J. F. M. Middleton & D. Tait Tribes without Rulers 209 Splinter-segments of a clan do not form cores of tribes. 1964 R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit v. 43 The fourteen new splinter nations now beginning to flake off the edges of a ripely rich Soviet Russia. 1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times ix. 293 Malcolm X formed a splinter movement, the organization of Afro-American unity. 1979 D. Sanders Queen sends for Mrs. Chadwick 82 Supposing..the two main parties are dead~locked... They would have to turn to whatever splinter party happened to be closest to their own line. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). splinterv. Brit. /ˈsplɪntə/, U.S. /ˈsplɪn(t)ər/ Etymology: < splinter n. Compare Dutch splinteren, West Frisian splinterje, Low German and German splintern; West Flemish splenteren. 1. a. transitive. To break or split into splinters or long narrow pieces, or in such a way as to leave a rough jagged end or projections. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst to-breakc888 briteOE to-shenec950 abreakOE forgnidea1000 to-brytc1000 to-burstc1000 to-driveOE shiverc1200 to-shiverc1200 to-reavec1225 shiverc1250 debruise1297 to-crack13.. to-frushc1300 to-sliftc1315 chinec1330 littlec1350 dingc1380 bruisea1382 burst1382 rushc1390 shinderc1390 spald?a1400 brittenc1400 pashc1400 forbruise1413 to break, etc. into sherds1426 shattera1450 truncheon1477 scarboyle1502 shonk1508 to-shattera1513 rash1513 shidera1529 grind1535 infringe1543 dishiver1562 rupture1578 splinter1582 tear1582 disshiver1596 upburst1596 to burst up1601 diminish1607 confract1609 to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612 dishatter1615 vanquashc1626 beshiver1647 disfrange1778 smash1778 explode1784 bust1806 spell1811 smithereen1878 shard1900 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 The oars are cleene splintred. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 13^v My leane withered hands..are all to shiuerd and splinterd in their wide cases of skinne. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Engagement This mutual assault..battering, penetrating, and splintering the sides and decks. 1806 Monthly Mag. 21 403 A strong bull..splintered with his horns the upper post. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxxvii. 325 The trees that the storms have splintered are never of use. 1898 J. B. Wollocombe From Morn till Eve v. 48 The top of the pole..had been splintered, and was held together by a very thin shred. b. figurative and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 155 The Courtier, Scholler, Souldier, all in him, All dasht and splinterd thence. 1849 M. Arnold Mycerinus 99 While the deep-burnish'd foliage overhead Splinter'd the silver arrows of the moon. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 226 [He] sought To make disruption in the Table Round Of Arthur, and to splinter it into feuds. c. To bring or cause to fall down, to break off or rend from, in splinters. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring or send down in fragments shiver1759 splinter1807 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > in slivers or chips chip?c1400 sliver1608 flake1661 spall1841 splinter1871 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 255 High from the decks the mortar's bursting fires Sweep the full streets, and splinter down the spires. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii. 320 Long lines of the débris that have been splintered by frost from the higher wall [of rock]. d. To form by shivering or splitting. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] > form by splitting splinter1878 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 7 Five short days, sufficient hardly to entice, from out its den Splintered in the slab, this pink perfection of the cyclamen. †2. To bind, fix, or secure by means of a splint or splints; = splint v. 2. Frequently figurative. Also with up. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] gatherc725 fayOE samc1000 join1297 conjoinc1374 enjoinc1384 assemble1393 compound1393 sociea1398 annex?c1400 ferec1400 marrowc1400 combinec1440 annectc1450 piece?c1475 combind1477 conjunge1547 associate1578 knit1578 sinew1592 splinter1597 patch1604 accouple1605 interjoina1616 withjoina1627 league1645 contignate1651 to bring on1691 splice1803 pan1884 suture1886 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint spelkc1000 splint1543 splinter1720 spell1886 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 106 The broken rancour of your high swolne hearts, But lately splinterd, knit, and ioynd etogether. a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaa2^v/2 Those men have broken credits, Loose and dismembred faiths..That splinter 'em with vows. 1659 M. Wren Monarchy Asserted 148 That Place, which I find..so strangely shattered, that it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confused Pieces of it. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 77 As to his Arm, he found one of the Bones broken..and this he set, and splinter'd it up, and bound his Arm in a Sling. 3. a. intransitive. To split; to break, burst, or fly into or to splinters or fragments; to come away in splinters. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst to-burstc893 forbursta1000 springOE to-flyc1000 to-shootc1000 to-springc1000 to-drevea1225 to-resea1225 to-breakc1230 to go shiversc1275 to-drivec1275 to-rivec1275 to-shenec1275 to-wendc1275 debruise1297 lash13.. to-dashc1300 to-scatter13.. to-shiver13.. shiverc1330 bequash1377 shinderc1390 brasta1400 bursta1400 to-shiderc1450 to fly in pieces1488 sprent1488 splindera1500 reavec1560 dishiver1562 shatter1567 disshiver1586 split1590 slent1608 besplit1638 disrupt1657 splintera1661 rupture1734 explode1784 to ding in staves1786 to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798 spell1811 to go (also run) smash1818 to play smash1841 bust1844 splitter1860 disrump1886 to fall into staves1895 smash1904 a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 48 This fforte was built of a kinde of stone not apt to splinter. 1802 J. Aikin Woodland Compan. (1815) 5 Oak-timber is fitted for this purpose [i.e. shipbuilding],..by the property of not readily splintering. a1832 G. Crabbe Posthumous Tales x, in Poet. Wks. (1834) VIII. 162 The dry boughs splinter in the windy gale. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. ii. 99 When heated, it [i.e. anthracite] splinters into small fragments. 1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells i. i. 42 The boy..tugged at the iron ring till the rotten woodwork splintered away from the bolt. b. poetic. To pierce through in the form of, or after the manner of, splinters. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > pierce or penetrate as a sharp thing biteOE delve?c1225 attamec1314 piercec1325 thrillc1330 ficche1388 traverse1477 through1578 splinter1821 stab1897 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 80 Stronger lightnings splinter through the cloud. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 213 The moon..Splinters through the broken glass. c. figurative. To break off to form a splinter group or groups; loosely, to divide or split. Also with off. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)] > split into factions schismatize1601 factionate1642 split1824 factionalize1949 splinter1967 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party > make division in party schismatize1793 cave1881 splinter1967 1967 M. L. King Trumpet of Conscience iii. 49 Under the impact of social forces unique to their times, young people have splintered into three principal groups, though of course there is some overlap among the three. 1972 Guardian 11 Jan. 9/1 Later Frank Ashbourn joined them..and in May 1970 he and Mersh splintered off to form South Sea Bubble. 1976 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. July 11/1 But the village's young people, distressed at seeing the parishioners splinter off to other towns for church, asked to hold the new prayer assembly in place of Mass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398v.1582
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