Definitions for splays

• Definition
• Anagrams (81)

splays splay

Spelling: [spley]

IPA: /spleɪ/

Splays is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in splays (alpssy).

Definitions for splays

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 splays

1300-50; Middle English; aphetic form of display

Examples for splays

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

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."

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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