Splayer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who splays.

    "The soldiers on both sides start dropping to the ground. Every few seconds, another one slumps and splays on the eld. They are good splayers, these soldiers, arms and legs bent in all sorts of acute and obtuse angles."

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"The soldiers on both sides start dropping to the ground. Every few seconds, another one slumps and splays on the eld. They are good splayers, these soldiers, arms and legs bent in all sorts of acute and obtuse angles."

Etymology

From splay + -er.

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