sb. Chiefly Sc. Forms: 5 splyndre, 9 splinder; 5 splendre, 5–6, 9 splender (6 -ar, 9 -ir). [Related to SPLINTER sb. Cf. SPLINE sb. and NFris. splüner-nii quite new.] A splinter. Chiefly in phr. in 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 Splinder v. intr., to splinter. rare.
c. 1450. Merlin, x. 155. [They] mette so sore to-geder … that her speres splyndered in peces.
1731. Meston, Mob contra Mob, V. 27.
| Since thrawn Trees do always splinder | |
| Best with a Wedge of their own Timber. |
