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splint

[splint] / splɪnt /
NOUN
support
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NOUN
sliver
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Splint boots are placed on him at night and removed in the morning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Box Splint for Fractures of Leg 180 92.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

First of all he visited Tommy Splint, who, in the privacy of his “boodwar” revealed to him, as he thought, every scrap of information about the affair that he possessed.

From The Garret and the Garden by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

No they sometimes also derive their Origine from internal Causes, as the Acrimony of Humours, or their Malignant Quality; the Retention of a Splint of a Bone, and other things of the like Nature.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

On this particular Sunday Tommy Splint, who was a regular attendant at the garden class, arrived late.

From The Garret and the Garden by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)




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