英语词汇“splint armour”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

splint /splint/

noun

(also splent) a contrivance for holding a broken bone, etc in position

A bony enlargement on a horse's leg along the line of the splint bone between knee and fetlock

The growth of such an enlargement

A strip, slip of wood, lath

A splinter

An overlapping strip in armour

Splint coal

transitive verb

To put in splints

ORIGIN: MDu splinte (Du splint) or (M)LGer splinte, splente; Du and LGer splinter, Ger Splenter

splintˈer noun

A piece of wood, metal, etc split off, esp a needlelike piece

A slender strip of wood, esp one used as a torch

A splint (obsolete)

transitive verb

intransitive verb

To split into splinters

transitive verb

Shakespeare

To put in splints, hence join, piece

splintˈery adjective

Made of, or like, splinters

Apt to splinter

splint armour noun

Armour of narrow overlapping plates

splint bone noun

A small bone alongside the cannon bone in the horse, etc, the second or the fourth metacarpal or metatarsal (also splent bone)
The fibula

splint coal noun

A hard coal of uneven fracture that does not cake

splinter bar noun

The crossbar of a coach, supporting the springs

splinter bone noun

The fibula

splinter group or splinter party noun

A group or party formed by a breakaway from a larger body

splintˈer-proof adjective

Proof against the splinters of bursting shells or bombs, or against splintering

splintery fracture noun (mineralogy)

The property of breaking with a surface like broken wood

splintˈwood noun

Sapwood