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Splintery

adjective

Subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces.

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

... ruined temples. Some were still standing erect, but without their crowns, like shafts that might have lost their capitals; others were pierced like the mouthpiece of a flute, or like pillars struck by a thunderbolt. Some had splintery threads hanging around their ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... of ruined temples. Some were still standing erect, but without their crowns, like shafts that might have lost their capitals; others were pierced like the mouthpiece of a flute, or like pillars struck by a thunderbolt. Some had splintery threads hanging around ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... La Sante; the similarity of occupations (or non-occupation; I refer to the profession of pimp) having cemented a friendship between these two. But, for all that The Young Pole's Sunday-best clothes were covered with filth, and for all that his polished puttees were soiled and scratched by the splintery floor of The Enormous Room (he having rolled well off the blanket upon which the wrestling was supposed to occur), his spirit was dashed but for the moment. He set about cleaning and polishing himself, combing his hair, ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings