splindern.
Chiefly Scottish.
A splinter. Chiefly in in or into splinders.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off
spoonc725
spillc1300
sliverc1374
splinter1398
sprotea1400
speelc1440
spelkc1440
splinderc1440
spilderc1475
spalea1500
spelcha1605
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter
shiverc1275
spillc1300
spelda1375
splint1398
splinter1398
slicea1400
splinderc1440
spilderc1475
spelder1530
spell1545
splitter1546
spleter1548
spilt1577
shivering1589
skilfer1598
spelcha1605
slifter1606
spilter?1646
slappet1768
c1440 Wycliffite Bible 2 Kings xviii. 21 (Bodl. 277) Þe splyndre or speele þerof schal entre into hys hoond.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 227 Speris full sone all in-to splendrys sprang.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 381 The speiris lang..In splendaris sprang aboue thame in the air.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 To brek in splenderis the schip on the feirful rokis.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 93 In splendirs flew the stane about.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 201 Ilk ane upon its marble crown Smashin' itsel' to splinders.
1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 133 He dang hid's bothom [= its bottom] clean i' splender.
Derivatives
ˈsplinder v. rare. intransitive to splinter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst
to-burstc893
forbursta1000
springOE
to-flyc1000
to-shootc1000
to-springc1000
to-drevea1225
to-resea1225
to-breakc1230
to go shiversc1275
to-drivec1275
to-rivec1275
to-shenec1275
to-wendc1275
debruise1297
lash13..
to-dashc1300
to-scatter13..
to-shiver13..
shiverc1330
bequash1377
shinderc1390
brasta1400
bursta1400
to-shiderc1450
to fly in pieces1488
sprent1488
splindera1500
reavec1560
dishiver1562
shatter1567
disshiver1586
split1590
slent1608
besplit1638
disrupt1657
splintera1661
rupture1734
explode1784
to ding in staves1786
to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798
spell1811
to go (also run) smash1818
to play smash1841
bust1844
splitter1860
disrump1886
to fall into staves1895
smash1904
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 155 [They] mette so sore to-geder..that her speres splyndered in peces.
1731 W. Meston Mob contra Mob (1738) v. 27 Thrawn Trees do always splinder Best with a Wedge of their own Timber.
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