Splintery

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Splintery \Splin"ter*y\ (spl[i^]n"t[~e]r*[y^]), a.
     Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the
     splintery fracture of a mineral.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  splintery
       adj 1: subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
       2: resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender
          fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a
          rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: {slivery}]