ˈsplinty, a. Now rare.
Also 8 splenty.
[f. splint n. + -y.]
Of a splintery nature or texture; of the nature of splint or splint coal.
| 1611 Cotgr., Esquilleux, splintie, scalie; full of little splints, or scales. 1725 Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 397 The undermost [vein] is about eighteen Fathoms from the Surface, call'd the Splenty Coal..; it's a hard but not large Coal. 1789 J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 109 Splenty coals and others..are wrought to the south-west of Dalkeith. 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 414/2 This ore is generally found..in caverns or churns of the mountain limestone in large masses, splinty and globulated. 1881 in Eng. Dial. Dict. |