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Definitions for splintsplɪnt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

splintsplɪnt(n.)

  1. a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.

    Category: Medicine

  2. one of a number of thin strips of wood woven together to make a chair seat, basket, etc.

    Category: Furniture

  3. a bony enlargement of a splint bone of a horse or related animal.

    Category: Veterinary Science

  4. a narrow plate or metal strip used in making armor.

    Category: Heraldry

  5. Brit. Dial. a splinter of wood or stone.

    Category: British

  6. (v.t.)to secure, hold in position, or support by means of a splint, as a fractured bone.

  7. to support as if with splints.

Origin of splint:

1275–1325; ME < MD or MLG splinte; cf. splinter

Princeton's WordNet

  1. splint(noun)

    a thin sliver of wood

    "he lit the fire with a burning splint"

  2. splint(verb)

    an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)

  3. splint(verb)

    support with a splint

    "splint a broken finger"

Wiktionary

  1. splint(Noun)

    A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.

  2. splint(Noun)

    A device to immobilize a body part.

    1900 But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Chapter 5.

  3. splint(Noun)

    A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.

  4. splint(Noun)

    A segment of armor.

    1819 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 ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour. u2014 Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1.

  5. splint(Noun)

    A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone.

  6. splint(Verb)

    To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.

  7. splint(Verb)

    To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Splint(verb)

    a piece split off; a splinter

  2. Splint(verb)

    a thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set

  3. Splint(verb)

    a splint bone

  4. Splint(verb)

    a disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence

  5. Splint(verb)

    one of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below

  6. Splint(verb)

    splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent

  7. Splint(verb)

    to split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver

  8. Splint(verb)

    to fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2

Translations for splint

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

splint(noun)

a piece of wood etc used to keep a broken arm or leg in a fixed position while it heals.

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