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Significados de splintery em inglês

Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points.

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Uso de splintery em inglês
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Axes had gouged splintery holes through the wood to serve as windows.
Serena
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Blood streaks across the splintery dock and into the early morning shadows.
World After
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Under the draped webs, they could just see another of the splintery workbenches.
Mixed Magics
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I put my hand on the splintery dock to steady myself.
World After
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Some had splintery threads hanging around their cuts like used toothpicks.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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They filed into the narrow, high-ceilinged chapel, beneath splintery exposed rafters.
The Fireman
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Amy froze, refusing to put even her toe on the weathered, splintery wood.
Shadows
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Some were snapped off clean, some bent outwards, some smashed into splintery brooms.
The system of the world
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Two ill-glued legs fell off it, and the rest crumpled to splintery matchwood.
The Magicians of Caprona
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He could hide, in the dust on the splintery wood floor.
The Young Lions
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Their fracture is exceedingly irregular, and splintery; yet small fragments are often very tough.
Volcanic Islands
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The sound of his splintery voice doused all the wonder.
A Time of Changes
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The nature of the bark is known by its splintery, fibrous, or corky texture.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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I remember every birth. I sat down and leaned back against the splintery logs.
Desert places: a novel of terror
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But on December 19th came another dreadful and splintery packing-case.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919
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He tottered in on legs like slats of splintery wood.
Night Shift
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