SPLINTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splinters mean? 

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

1. wood in small pieces or splinters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLINTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood in small pieces or splinters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

matchwood; splinters

Context example:

the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

 Context examples 

The men tried to row with the splinters, and had them shot out of their hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You did right to hold fast to each other," I said: as if the monster- splinters were living things, and could hear me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By good fortune, the wood was so light and rotten that it went to a thousand splinters, but Alleyne thought it best to leave the twain to settle the matter at their leisure, the more so as the sun was shining brightly once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Kelly ripped up a bottom board and began paddling, but dropped it with a cry of pain as its splinters drove into his hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)