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Splint

//splɪnt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
  2. 2
    an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg) wordnet
  3. 3
    A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.; A splinter caught in the skin. West-Midlands
  4. 4
    a thin sliver of wood wordnet
  5. 5
    A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
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  1. 6
    A device to immobilize a body part.

    "[...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed."

  2. 7
    A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate. historical

    "The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ancle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour."

  3. 8
    Synonym of splent coal.
  4. 9
    A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
  5. 10
    A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Verb
  1. 1
    To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints. transitive
  2. 2
    support with a splint wordnet
  3. 3
    To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
  4. 4
    To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter. obsolete, rare, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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