ppl. a. [f. SPLINTER v.] Broken into splinters; split off as a splinter; shattered, shivered.
1718. Free-thinker, No. 95. 283. A Seamstress has been … sadly wounded by the splintered Glass.
1791. Cowper, Yardley Oak, 128. A splinter’d stump bleach’d to a snowy white.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 183. It would be right … to take away the splintered portions of bone.
1842. Tennyson, Sir Galahad, i. The splinter’d spear-shafts crack and fly.
1871. L. Stephen, Playgr. Eur. (1894), xiii. 333. The occasional fall of a splintered fragment of rock.
b. Of rocks, etc.: Ragged or jagged through splintering.
1833. Tennyson, Dream Fair Wom., xlvii. The splinter’d crags that wall the dell With spires of silver shine.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, I. v. 42. A chain of splintered peaks in the distance wore the softest shade of violet.
1867. Morris, Jason, XIV. 38. A little bay Walled from the sea by splintered cliffs and grey.
