splicing hammer

A hammer having a face at one end and a point at the other, used in splic ing. splicing-shackle, s. IMG:content-0063.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A fragment or piece of wood split off, a splinter "They all agreed, that so soon as ever they pulled out the head and splent of the dart out of his body, he must needs die."- North : Plutarch , p. 931. 2. In the same sense as II. 1. II. Technically : 1. Farriery: 4. Surg .: A flexible and resisting lamina of wood, metal, bark, leather, or pasteboard, to keep the parts of fractures in apposition and prevent displacement. They are usually padded, and fixed by rollers or tapes. *splint-armor, susbt . A name given to that kind of armor which was made of several overlapping plates. It never came into very general use, because the convexity of the breastplate would not allow the body to bend, unle the plates were made to overlap upward, and this rendered them liable to be struck into and drawn off by the weapon of an antagonist.