splint
Plural: splints
Noun
- a thin sliver of wood
- "he lit the fire with a burning splint"
- an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
- A splinter caught in the skin.
- A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
- A device to immobilize a body part.
- A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
- Synonym of splent coal.
- A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
- A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Verb
Verb Forms: splinted, splinting, splints
- To brace or secure a broken bone or object with a splint.
- support with a splint
- "splint a broken finger"
- To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
- To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
- To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
Examples
- He had to SPLINT his confidence after making a costly blunder in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
splent coal
Scrabble Score: 8
splint: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsplint: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
splint: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary