Meaning of SPLINT in English

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Meaning of SPLINT in English

• A piece split off; a splinter.
• A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
• A splint bone.
• A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
• One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
• Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
• To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
• To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.

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