Definitions for splints

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Spelling: [splint]

IPA: /splɪnt/

Splints is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in splints (ilnpsst).

Definitions for splints

noun

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.
2. one of a number of thin strips of wood woven together to make a chair seat, basket, etc.
3. Veterinary Medicine. an exostosis or bony enlargement of a splint bone of a horse or a related animal.
4. Armor. any of a number of narrow plates or lames joined with rivets or a backing to form a piece of armor. a partial vambrace protecting only the outer part of the arm.
5. British Dialect. a splinter of wood or stone.

verb (used with object)

1. to secure, hold in position, or support by means of a splint or splints, as a fractured bone.
2. to support as if with splints.

Origin of splints

1275-1325; Middle English Middle Dutch or Middle Low German splinte; cf. splinter

Examples for splints

It was strapped to a splint, and fluid was dripping slowly into the vein there.

Do not attempt to tear the splint, for it will not tear evenly.

Let us tie the bone to a splint of wood with it, and the wing may heal.

Then the splint burst into flame as voices were heard inquiring what it all meant.

Some men are bandaged, and others with broken limbs are helped by a splint.

The two short "splint" bones in the horse are remnants of lost digits.

Paresi was the Doctor, and he had many a salve and many a splint for invisible ills.

When an arm is put in a splint, hang the hand and forearm in a sling.

There were three straight chairs and a rocking chair with splint bottoms.

You might also line your basket with silk of a color to harmonize with the splint.