Splinters (Noun)
Meaning
Wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks".
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- The carpenter carefully swept the floor to remove the sharp splinters from the broken wooden plank.
- Walking barefoot across the old wooden deck required caution to avoid stepping on painful splinters.
- The storm had ripped the fence apart, leaving it shattered into thousands of tiny splinters.
- After years of exposure to the elements, the wooden dock had begun to disintegrate into fragile splinters.
- The axe swing had misfired, leaving deep grooves and jagged splinters in the tree trunk.