Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Splinter (-ed)
splinter (-ed), verbal adj. [see splinter, n.] (webplay: fracture).
Broken; cracked; damaged; shattered; fragmented; [fig.] imperfect; flawed; defective; [metaphor] thorny; made of sharp spines instead of laurel leaves.
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