1. splinter - Noun
2. splinter - Verb
3. Splinter - Proper noun
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
To become split into long pieces.
A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. Theodor Adorno
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. George W. Bush
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. Anthony Bourdain
He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter. Danish Proverb
It is a splinter in the eye of somebody. Hungarian Proverb
He can see the splinter in another's eye but cannot see even the beam in his own. Hungarian Proverb