SPLINTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splintering mean? 

• SPLINTERING (noun)
  The noun SPLINTERING has 1 sense:

1. the act of chipping something

  Familiarity information: SPLINTERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLINTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of chipping something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chip; chipping; splintering

Hypernyms ("splintering" is a kind of...):

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

Derivation:

splinter (divide into slivers or splinters)

 Context examples 

Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging and wrestling with it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I struck the door of the state-room which had formerly been Mugridge’s, splintering and smashing the panels with the impact of my body.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is now necessary that we should try to throw some light upon this third bullet, which has clearly, from the splintering of the wood, been fired from inside the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manœuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)