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splinter up

splinter up verb: to attach splints to a broken limb in order to allow it to grow together.

Verb

splinter up (third-person singular simple present splinters up, present participle splintering up, simple past and past participle splintered up)

  1. (transitive) To attach splints to a broken limb in order to allow it to grow together.
    • DEC. 27. - Killed a young goat, and lamed another, so that I caught it and led it home in a string; when I had it at home, I bound and splintered up its leg, which was broke.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

Forms of splinter up

third-person singular presentsplinters up
present participlesplintering up
past participlesplintered up
pastsplintered up

Questions about splinter up

What does splinter up mean?
Splinter up means to attach splints to a broken limb in order to allow it to grow together.
What part of speech is splinter up?
Splinter up is a verb.
What is the past tense of splinter up?
The past tense of splinter up is splintered up.

Words near splinter up in the dictionary

  1. splinter groups
  2. splinter parties
  3. splinter party
  4. splinter skill
  5. splinter skills
  6. splinter up
  7. splinter-new
  8. splinterable
  9. splintercat
  10. splintercats
  11. splinterd

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