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SPLINTERS

Dictionary entry overview: What does splinters mean?

• SPLINTERS (noun)
The noun SPLINTERS has 1 sense:

1. wood in small pieces or splinters

Familiarity information: SPLINTERS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SPLINTERS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wood in small pieces or splinters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

matchwood; splinters

Context example:

the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks

Hypernyms ("splinters" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

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