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Splintering   /splˈɪntərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Splinter  v. t.  (past & past part. splintered; pres. part. splintering)  
1.
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. "After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and... abandoned the field to the enemy."
2.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.


Splinter  v. i.  To become split into long pieces.





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"Splintering" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked at Ralph in triumph, her hard face splintering into the hideous semblance of a smile. And Mirandy cast a blushing, gushing, all-imploring, and all-confiding look ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various
... their shields they crouched; Now rang the clarions; goading spurs struck deep, The mighty chargers reared with furious leap And, like two whirlwinds, met in full career, To backward reel 'neath shock of splintering spear: But, all unshaken, every eye might see The bloody hand, the scarred gules falcons three. Thrice thus they met, but at the fourth essay, Rose sudden shout of wonder and dismay, For, smitten sore through riven shield, Sir Gui Thudded to ...
— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol
... Splintering, gaping mouths that vomited out a horde of pallid animals. Jason heard their shriekings, shrill yet remote. He saw the needlelike ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... toward the pit. There was a tremor of the ground under the prison and its yard as if Thor had thunked viciously with his heaviest hammer. When startled men shot glances from the windows that were handiest for observation, the hill was toppling into the pit. In the forefront was the dynamite shed, splintering under the tons of moving rock. Instantly the last sliver of the shed was swallowed up, and then other tons of dirt and rock went piling into the pit, burying the shattered structure in crashing depths from which lime-rock dust came ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day
... a crackling, a darkness of vast wings flinging down upon us. The corial's flight was checked as by a giant's hand. The shell swerved sickeningly; there was an oddly metallic splintering; it quivered; shot ahead. Dizzily I picked myself ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt


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