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splinters up

splinters up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 splinters up

What is splinters up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Splinters up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of splinter up.

Words near splinters up in the dictionary

  1. splinterlike
  2. splinternet
  3. splinternets
  4. splinterproof
  5. splinters
  6. splinters up
  7. splintery
  8. splinting
  9. splintless
  10. splintlike
  11. splints

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