noun
Meaning 1
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
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noun
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
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noun
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
A splinter caught in the skin.
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Usage: West-Midlands
Qualifier: Cheshire
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noun
A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
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Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
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noun
A device to immobilize a body part.
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Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
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Usage: historical
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Synonym of splent coal.
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Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: splent coal
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noun
A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology, zootomy
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noun
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
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Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology, zootomy
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verb
To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
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verb
To press fingers against the vaginal wall to ease defecation.
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verb
To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
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Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive
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noun
an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
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Broader terms: mechanical device
noun
a thin sliver of wood
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Broader terms: paring, sliver, shaving
verb
support with a splint
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Broader terms: treat, care for
History
From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
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