It was a meal which would have been spurned by any of the "studio bums" of T-S's mob-scenes; but now T-S was going to be a good sport, and sit on a splintery plank and eat it!
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
It is generally splintery under the hammer.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Steve and two teamsters who had been hung-up on the roads had spent the night watching that flying sparks did not catch its splintery grey shingles.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard