Definitions for splats

splats splat

Spelling: [splat]
IPA: /splæt/

Splats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in splats (alpsst).

Definitions for splats

noun

  1. Also, splad. a broad, flat piece of wood, either pierced or solid, forming the center upright part of a chair back or the like.
  2. a batten for covering joints between sheets of wallboard; panel strip.
  3. a sound made by splattering or slapping.

Origin of splats

1825-35; origin uncertain; compare Old English splātan to split

Examples for splats

Avoiding curved backs, he had not to face 240 the intricacies of the nicety of balance in the splat.

Exhibiting florid turning and Yorkshire type of splat stretchers.

The stretchers across the two legs are half way up and are the Yorkshire form of splat stretcher.

The back shows the transition from the lath back (such as in the chairs simulating the cane-work) to the splat back.

It was therefore natural that in the farmhouse examples the plain Dutch splat would readily find favour as more easily executed.

The Prince of Wales's feathers, so often associated with Hepplewhite's own work, are embodied in the splat of one.

The splat, with its varying forms, denotes the date of the chair.

The oak form is rigidly retained in all except the back and splat of Queen Anne days.

With sunk seat for squab cushion, turned uprights and legs and curious back, showing transition from lath back to splat back.

The splat back 254 is a feature only found in English varieties of the Windsor chair.

Word Value for splats
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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