ˈsplinder, n. Chiefly Sc.
Forms: 5 splyndre, 9 splinder; 5 splendre, 5–6, 9 splender (6 -ar, 9 -ir).
[Related to splinter n. Cf. spline n. and NFris. splüner-nii quite new.]
A splinter. Chiefly in phr. in splinders or into splinders.
| c 1440 Wycliffite Bible 2 Kings xviii. 21 (MS. Bodl. 277), Þe splyndre or speele þerof schal entre into hys hoond. c 1470 Henry Wallace ix. 921 Speris full sone all in to splendrys sprang. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 381 The speiris lang..In splendaris sprang aboue thame in the air. 1562 WinȜet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 3 To brek in splenderis the schip on the feirful rokis. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 93 In splendirs flew the stane about. Ibid. 201 Ilk ane upon its marble crown Smashin' itsel' to splinders. 1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 133 He dang hid's bothom [= its bottom] clean i' splender. |
So ˈsplinder v. intr., to splinter. rare.
| c 1450 Merlin x. 155 [They] mette so sore to-geder..that her speres splyndered in peces. 1731 W. Meston Mob contra Mob v. (1738) 27 Thrawn Trees do always splinder Best with a Wedge of their own Timber. |