splint
noun
1. a thin sliver of wood
- he lit the fire with a burning splint
Definition categories: object, paring, shaving, sliver
2. an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with splint as a noun:
- 1900 But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Chapter 5.
- 1819 The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints , or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1.