resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
{s} full of splinters or slivers; tending to split into small fragments, liable to splinter
subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards
Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral