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

1. transitive verb. A piece split off; a splinter.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. A splint bone.
4. transitive verb. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
5. transitive verb. One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
6. transitive verb. Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
7. transitive verb. To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
8. transitive verb. To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
9. noun. an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
10. noun. a thin sliver of wood

    "he lit the fire with a burning splint"

11. verb. support with a splint

    "splint a broken finger"

Common word forms

splints, splinted, splinter, splinting

Words from these letters

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