a. Now rare. Also 8 splenty. [f. SPLINT sb. + -Y.] Of a splintery nature or texture; of the nature of splint or splint coal.
1611. Cotgr., Esquilleux, splintie, scalie; full of little splints, or scales.
1725. Phil. Trans., XXXIII. 397. The undermost [vein] is about eighteen Fathoms from the Surface, call’d the Splenty Coal…; it’s a hard but not large Coal.
1789. J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 109. Splenty coals and others … are wrought to the south-west of Dalkeith.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 414/2. This ore is generally found … in caverns or churns of the mountain limestone in large masses, splinty and globulated.
1881. in Eng. Dial. Dict.
