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Splinters
- noun - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
- break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
- divide into slivers or splinters
- withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
- wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
Splintery
- adjective - resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
- subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Splinting
- verb - support with a splint; "splint a broken finger"
Splitters
- noun - a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- A terrible headache
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
Splitting
- verb - come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst"
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
- go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
- resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
- separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
Splutters
- noun - an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
- spit up in an explosive manner
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire"
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
Sprigtail
- noun - large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America
Sprinters
- noun - someone who runs a short distance at top speed
Sprinting
- verb - run very fast, usually for a short distance
Sprouting
- verb - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year"
- the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow