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splintering up

splintering up is the present participle and gerund 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 splintering up

What is splintering up the present participle and gerund of?
Splintering up is the present participle and gerund of splinter up.

Words near splintering up in the dictionary

  1. splinterd
  2. splintered
  3. splintered up
  4. splinteriness
  5. splintering
  6. splintering up
  7. splinteringly
  8. splinterings
  9. splinterization
  10. splinterizations
  11. splinterize

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