splint
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
splint/splɪnt/
▶noun
- 1 a strip of rigid material for supporting a broken bone when it has been set.
- 2 a long, thin strip of wood used in basketwork or to light a fire.
- 3 a bony enlargement on the inside of a horse's leg, on the splint bone.
– origin ME (also denoting a section of armour): from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. splinte ‘metal plate or pin’; rel. to splinter.
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