Usually means: Small, sharp fragment broken off.
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  1. splinter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. splinter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. splinter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. splinter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. splinter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Splinter, splinter: Wordnik
  7. splinter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. splinter: Wiktionary
  9. splinter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. splinter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. splinter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. splinter: Dictionary.com
  13. splinter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. splinter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Splinter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. splinter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. splinter: Rhymezone
  19. splinter, splinter (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. splinter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. splinter: Free Dictionary
  22. splinter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. splinter: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. splinter: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPLINTER: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SPLINTER: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. splinter: Medical dictionary

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  2. splinter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splinter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Splinter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Splinter: Fifthchair Bridge

(Note: See splintered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
noun:  A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
noun:  A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
noun:  (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
noun:  (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
verb:  (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
verb:  (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
noun:  A surname.

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