vi to become split into long pieces.
2. splinter ·noun to fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
3. splinter ·noun to split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
4. splinter ·noun 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.