splinter up

English

Verb

splinter up (third-person singular simple present splinters up, present participle splintering up, simple past and past participle splintered up)

(transitive) To attach splints to a broken limb in order to allow it to grow together.
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
  DEC. 27. - Killed a young goat, and lamed another, so that I caught it and led it home in a string; when I had it at home, I bound and splintered up its leg, which was broke.

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