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Definition of Splintered
1. splinter [v] - See also: splinter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splintered
Literary usage of Splintered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"The iron-work of the guard's step was bent completely upwards, and a tender behind
was nearly filled with the confused débris of its splintered wood-work ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"... or whether he merely wanted to see the wood placed there by him splintered.
The engineer testifies that the engine readily cut the obstruction out of ..."
3. Publications of the Folk-lore Foundation by Vassar College Folk-lore Foundation (1922)
"THE LAW OF THE splintered PADDLE x (As told by Ka-luhi-o-ka-lani, a relative of
Mrs. Pukui, who also told the Ka-meha-meha story earlier in the series. ..."
4. Man Before Metals by Nicolas Joly (1883)
"I. THE splintered FLINTS OF ABBEVILLE. To the history of the diluvium a discovery
belongs which, though insignificant in appearance, is in reality of the ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"Stop, my good friend, if the spade-handle was splintered, why did you not mend
it f" " Ma'am dear, that was a way you had, ever and always, tripping a body ..."
6. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"Stop, my good friend, if the spade-handle was splintered, why did you not mend it ?"
" Ma'am dear, that was a way you had, ever and always, tripping a body ..."
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