splinter

Pitchers build arm strength by pitching, not by growing splinters on their collective butts.

But Redford, who played baseball at Van Nuys High and was good enough to earn a college scholarship, was convincing as a ballplayer who fashioned his own bat from a tree splintered by lightning.

The stucco buildings in the town square are shattered from drone attacks, the trees along its avenues are broken and splintered.

Further along the road, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, discrete piles of masonry and splintered metal mapped where each house or farm building once stood.

There is talk among Phillipson's opponents of the need for votes to consolidate around a viable rival, rather than splinter in five different directions.