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splintery definition

splin·tery (-ē)

adjective

  1. easily splintered
  2. of or like a splinter
  3. resulting in splinters, as a fracture
  4. full of splinters; splintered

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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