splinter
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈsplɪntər/
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- I clenched the redwood gate so tightly that a splinter slid into my finger.
- bone splinters
You might catch yourself with a pair of chopsticks and get a splinter and that's the time where it it works itself out.
- You might catch yourself with a pair of chopsticks and get a splinter and that's the time where it it works itself out.
- It'll help to kind of keep that handle feeling soft, keep it from forming any like splinters and stuff like that.
- Under it lurked a sad playground, rusty equipment stuck like splinters in the weeds.
- The father never explained to her that she had this fate, that she was in great mortal danger of a splinter of flax.
Examples
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Do you know how many splinters I had to get removed from my inner thighs?
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The tree gave me a splinter!
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Next day my mum tried to brush it off, saying she was looking for a splinter he had from the dining room chair.
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The D.S. walks over and looks at the splinter, and in one move pulls it out.
Fiction book (1991) -
In one hand, he held a long splinter of strut wood he'd yanked from his face.
Fiction book (1990) -
Bent over, I moved around on my knees, rough floorboards threatening splinters even through my jeans.
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Two legs of the easel snapped against the concrete, their splinters adding to the debris.
Academic text (2012) -
While playing outside, I accidentally stepped on a splinter from the broken fence.
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She noticed a tiny splinter of wood stuck in her finger after the woodworking project.
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He pulled out a splinter from the wooden bench before sitting down.
Synonyms
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3.9
A very thin small piece cut or broken from something like wood
47
4.9
A sharp broken piece of glass or pottery
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Etymology
The word splinter originally named a thin, sharp piece broken from wood and comes from the same idea as split ('to break apart'). That's why a splinter is a little sharp fragment you might get in your finger.