Splint
[splɪnt]
Definition
(noun.) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg).
(noun.) a thin sliver of wood; 'he lit the fire with a burning splint'.
(verb.) support with a splint; 'splint a broken finger'.
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Definition
(v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
(v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
(v. t.) A splint bone.
(v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
(v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
(v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
(v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
(v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
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Definition
n. a small piece of wood split off: a thin piece of padded wood &c. for keeping a fractured limb in its proper position: a bony enlargement on the horse's leg between the knee and the fetlock usually appearing on the inside of one or both forelegs frequently situated between the large and small canon bones depending upon concussion—also Splent.—v.t. to confine with splints.—ns. Splint′age use of splints; Splint′-arm′our armour made of splints or narrow overlapping plates; Splint′-coal cannel-coal of slaty structure; Splint′er a piece of wood &c. split off.—v.t. and v.i. to split into splinters.—ns. Splint′er-bar the cross-bar of a coach supporting the springs; Splint′er-bone the fibula.—adjs. Splint′er-proof proof against the splinters of bursting shells; Splint′ery made of or like splinters: apt to splinter.
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Examples
- The terms semi-anthracite, semi-bituminous, coking coal, splint coal, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After staying there twenty-four hours, the trainmen made snowshoes of fence-rail splints and started out to find food, which they did about a half mile away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Others for making splints and the matches separately, quickly followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The splints are collected into bundles of one thousand, and each end having been dipped into melted sulphur, they are divided in the middle by a circular saw. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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