To violently break something into pieces.
The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
To destroy or disable something.
To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
A fragment of anything shattered.
to break a glass into shatters
A (pine) needle.
My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
A surname.
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatt...
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A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson.