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nounan orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)type of:
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"he lit the fire with a burning splint"nouna thin sliver of wood
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"splint a broken finger"verbsupport with a splint
Definition that contains splint
- splinter divide into slivers or splinters
- splinter break up into splinters or slivers
- splinters wood in small pieces or splinters
- sl a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade
- sliver divide into slivers or splinters
- sliver break up into splinters or slivers
- splint support with a splint
- hemlock soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
- flinders bits and splinters and fragments
- shatterproof resistant to shattering or splintering