Dictionary Entry
splint
splint is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A piece split off; a splinter. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
A piece split off; a splinter.
- 2transitive verb
A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
- 3transitive verb
A splint bone.
- 4transitive verb
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
- 5transitive verb
One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
- 6transitive verb
Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
- 7transitive verb
To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
- 8transitive verb
To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint., 2.
- 9noun
an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
- 10noun
a thin sliver of wood
"he lit the fire with a burning splint"
- 11verb
support with a splint
"splint a broken finger"
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