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verb
To splinter while being crosscut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English spelc, or spilc (“little rod by which things are kept straight or a splint for binding up broken bones”), ultimately from Old Norse spelkur (“splints”).
