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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Splinter
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(1):
(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
(2):
(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
(3):
(n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
(4):
(v. i.) To become split into long pieces.