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splintered up

splintered up is the simple past and past participle of splinter up.

Meaning of splinter up

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

Questions about splintered up

What is splintered up the simple past and past participle of?
Splintered up is the simple past and past participle of splinter up.

Words near splintered up in the dictionary

  1. splinterable
  2. splintercat
  3. splintercats
  4. splinterd
  5. splintered
  6. splintered up
  7. splinteriness
  8. splintering
  9. splintering up
  10. splinteringly
  11. splinterings

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