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splintery, a. (and adv.)|ˈsplɪntərɪ|
Also 8–9 splintry.
[f. splinter n. and v. + -y. Cf. Du. splinterig, WFris. splinterich.]
1. Min. Of fracture: Characterized by the production of small splinters.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 34 Of this [i.e. compact] fracture there are six sorts, the uneven, even, conchoidal, splintery, earthy, and hackly. 1799― Geol. Ess. 215 Primitive limestone..is said sometimes to discover a splintry fracture. 1804Edin. Rev. III. 301 Let its fracture be splintery, and it becomes hornstein. 1884J. E. Lee tr. Römer's Bone Caves of Ojcow 2 A compact white oolitic limestone with a splintery or flatly conchoidal fracture.
2. Of stone, minerals, etc.: Liable to split into splinters; breaking or separating easily into splinters; spec. having a splintery fracture.
1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 11 In those places where the upper parts of the rock are of a splintry texture. 1823W. Scoresby Jrnl. 405 Common calcedony, inclining to splintery quartz. 1886Fenn Patience Wins 50 The stone we found here and there was slaty and splintery.
b. Of rocks, etc.: Marked by splintering; rough or jagged.
1829Scott Anne of G. i, The ridgy precipices..showed their splintery and rugged edges over the vapour. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii i. vii. §5. 76 Salvator bids him stand under some contemptible fragment of splintery crag. 1876Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xi. 194 Abounding in steep precipices and splintery peaks.
3. Of the nature of a splinter; resembling a splinter in shape or form.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 978 To prevent the seam, which forms the ceiling over the workmen's heads, from falling down and killing them by its splintery fragments. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley III. 24 There was no severe cold yet;..no splintery needles of sparkling drift.
fig.1836Landor Min. Pr. Pieces Wks. 1853 II. 457/1, I was never an admirer..of those abrupt and splintery sentences, which..sparkle only when they are broken.
Comb.1888Rutley Rock-Forming Min. 192 The laths do not show splintery-looking ends.
4. Abounding in or full of splinters.
1857Dickens Dorrit xi, It was a large room, with a rough, splintery floor.
5. As adv. In a splintering manner. rare—1.
1784Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 453 It..breaks more woody and splintery. |