splinter

The wooden chalk bucket is so old that athletes get splinters if they dig their hands in too deep before hopping on the equipment.

It handily sucked out a nearly invisible splinter from my partner’s hand, and its lightweight and compact nature means it’s easy to fit it into your pack or car for any adventures you have planned.

This faction of the opposition is itself fractured into dozens of splinter groups.

DS: I got a splinter of wood through my ear as some doors were exploding.

While new open-carry groups pop up and old organizations splinter, the gun control movement has found strength in partnerships.

A tornado does not just topple trees, it tears off their branches and twists their trunks until they splinter.

The second lesson is that progressive movements all too often splinter among themselves, rather than uniting around common values.

Over this we toasted bits of meat on the end of a splinter, and presently our hunger was appeased.

The second barrel was discharged with no better result, except that a splinter of its horn was knocked off.

Can be made from colorless acid by adding a splinter of pine, or allowing to stand in sunlight.

Using a pair of bullet-molds I managed to secure a grip on the ugly splinter and pull it out.

Two bullets went through the boy's hat; then a splinter cut through his clothes; still he did not flinch.