Crossword-Solution: SPLINT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Splint | v. t. | A piece split off; a splinter. |
| Splint | v. t. | A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. |
| Splint | v. t. | A splint bone. |
| Splint | v. t. | A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. |
| Splint | v. t. | One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. |
| Splint | v. t. | Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. |
| Splint | v. t. | To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. |
| Splint | v. t. | To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPLINT (5)
The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing, lulled by the drowsy hum of study.
Bedrooms with rag carpets; bedsteads of the 'corded' sort, with a sag in the middle, the cords needing tightening; snuffy feather-bed--not aired often enough; cane-seat chairs, splint-bottomed rocker; looking-glass on wall, school-slate size, veneered frame; inherited bureau; wash-bowl and pitcher, possibly--but not certainly; brass candlestick, tallow candle, snuffers.
The spot is still pointed out where the boy, in the intervals of his herding, hewed a square compartment out of the rock by the water side, and there burnt the splint coal found on the top of the Black Band ironstone.
Torn into strips, they will make excellent bandages, while for a splint--" "The cove," I said, "is ideal.
This splint will hold, hopefully, until you heal." He bound the doe's leg with wooden splints in place.
Quotes with SPLINT (1)
The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put first a finger in the entry wound and then another in the exit and when his fingers touched, he decided the man was only lightly injured and didn’t need a surgeon. Three minutes to set a broken wrist and splint it with a strip of cowhide and a piece of wood from a sycamore tree. Two minutes to tourniquet a leg, then extract a piece of wi…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 59 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).