splint
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
splint (plural splints)
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
- (dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
- (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
- 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, pages 50–51:
- [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.
- (military, historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 25:
- 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.
- (mining) Synonym of splent coal
- (zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
- (zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Usage notes[edit]
- For a horse to pop a splint is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
narrow strip of wood
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immobilizing device
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dental device
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bone of a horse
Verb[edit]
splint (third-person singular simple present splints, present participle splinting, simple past and past participle splinted)
- (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
- To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
- (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
Translations[edit]
apply splint
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References[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
splint c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of splint | ||||
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| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | splint | splinten | — | — |
| Genitive | splints | splintens | — | — |
See also[edit]
- kärnved (“heartwood”)
References[edit]
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