Definitions for splay

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Spelling: [spley]

IPA: /spleɪ/

Splay is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in splay (alpsy).

Definitions for splay

noun

1. Architecture. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall.

adjective

1. spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
2. clumsy or awkward.
3. oblique or awry.

verb (used with object)

1. to spread out, expand, or extend.
2. to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
3. to make with a splay or splays.
4. to disjoin; dislocate.

verb (used without object)

1. to have an oblique or slanting direction.
2. to spread or flare.

Origin of splay

1300-50; Middle English; aphetic form of display

Examples for splay

Such a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.

And tell Harrington to shove his own cold, splay fingers into his own pockets for a change.

As against this they have, unless very carefully bred, a lightness of bone and a tendency to splay feet and flat sides.

The window in the east wall has its head and splay of a single stone.

Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?

A figure in the splay of the E. window has been carefully erased by some "conscientious objector."

I shall try to cut in a sloping way to splay the board if I can, so that it will fit better when we put it back—if we get one out.

Norman windows have only one splay on the internal side of the building.

Like the jambs, the arch has a splay which is divided into small panels.

No variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.