Splint

splint, n. a small piece of wood split off: a thin piece of padded wood, ., for keeping a fractured limb in its proper position: a bony enlargement on the horse's leg, between the knee and the fetlock, usually appearing on the inside of one or both forelegs, frequently situated between the large and small canon bones, depending upon concu ion—also Splent .— v.t. to confine with splints.— ns. Splint′age , use of splints; Splint′-arm′our , armour made of splints or narrow overlapping plates; Splint′-coal , cannel-coal of slaty structure; Splint′er , a piece of wood, ., split off.— v.t. and v.i. to split into splinters.— ns. Splint′er-bar , the cro -bar of a coach, supporting the springs; Splint′er-bone , the fibula.— adjs. Splint′er-proof , proof against the splinters of bursting shells; Splint′ery , made of, or like, splinters: apt to splinter. [Sw. splint — splint a , to splinter; cf. Split .]