splint

Meaning

Noun

1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
2. (West-Midlands) A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
4. A device to immobilize a body part.
5. (historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
6. Synonym of splent coal.
7. A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
8. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Verb

1. (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

Synonyms

splinter

chip

splints

brace

flake

float

gutter

jackstraw

lath

license plate

matchwood

pick

⛏️

piece of wood

scupper

shaving

slat

slice

sliver

spatula

splint-bone

stick

stob

trowel

turner

turning

wedges

fish slice

pancake turner

scroll roller

spillikin

be in plaster cast

food turner

wood veneer

splent coal

applicator

splint coal

applier

cotter pin

crisp

Translations

Schiene

attelle

stecca

tablilla

éclisse

spalk

férula

fèrula

spalken

gouttière

cebire

schienen

Stütze

éclisser

Splint

Pronounced as (IPA)

/splɪnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: splint

Cognate with Old High German: splinza

In summary

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).