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noun

Splint n.

A piece split off; a splinter.

(Surg.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.

(Anat.) A splint bone.

(Far.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

(Anc. Armor.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. "The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel."

Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.

Splint armor,a kind of ancient armor formed of thin plates of metal, usually overlapping each other and allowing the limbs to move freely.

Splint bone (Anat.), one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones on either side of the cannon bone in the limbs of the horse and allied animals.

Splint coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.

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Etymology of 'Splint'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Splint" Quotes from Famous Books

... neck. When I objected to transporting eggs and berries in my only resource, my handkerchief, they reluctantly produced scraps of dirty newspaper, or of ledgers scrawled over with queer accounts. I soon grew wise, and hoarded up the splint strawberry baskets provided by the male venders, which are put to multifarious uses ...

— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood

... long splint to my right leg from hip to ankle, so that I was helpless as a babe in its swaddlings, and made fast the other leg to that. They did not do more than loosen the cords that bound me just enough to suffer them ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... seat of honor, viz., the splint-bottomed chair, Mary resumed her usual duties, occasionally casting a look of curiosity at the stranger, whose eyes seemed constantly upon her. It was rather warm that day, and when Mary returned from her dinner, Widow Perkins was greatly shocked at seeing her attired in a light pink muslin ...

— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes

... splint-basket slung on my arm, my hair adorned with flowers, I go to the side of the Sunglo hills, and pick the mountain tea. Amid the pathway going, we sisters one another rally, And laughing, I point ...

— Tea Leaves • Francis Leggett & Co.

... and through. Then he moved away; he frankly confessed to himself that he was too cowardly to go in, and so he now formed a new plan. From an ash-box which stood in the corner he had just left, he took some bits of charcoal, found a resinous pine-splint, went up to the barn, closed the door and struck a light. When he had lit the pine-splint, he held it up to find the wooden peg where Anders hung his lantern when he came early in the morning to thresh. Baard took his gold watch and hung it on the peg, blew out his light ...

— A Happy Boy • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

... Jonathan, tired out, sat in his big splint chair at the supper-table. He had been thrashing the brook since daylight,—over his knees sometimes. I could still see the high-water mark on his patched trousers. Another whiff of the frying-pan, and George got up. He dared not poke his ...

— A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others • F. Hopkinson Smith

Words linked to "Splint" : practice of medicine, splint bone, medicine, paring