splint /splint/

1. (also splent) a contrivance for holding a broken bone, etc in position
2. A bony enlargement on a horse's leg along the line of the splint bone between knee and fetlock
3. The growth of such an enlargement
4. A strip, slip of wood, lath
5. A splinter
6. An overlapping strip in armour
7. Splint coal

To put in splints

splintˈer noun

1. A piece of wood, metal, etc split off, esp a needlelike piece
2. A slender strip of wood, esp one used as a torch
3. A splint (obsolete)

To split into splinters

To put in splints, hence join, piece

splintˈery adjective

1. Made of, or like, splinters
2. Apt to splinter

splint armour noun

Armour of narrow overlapping plates

splint bone noun

1. A small bone alongside the cannon bone in the horse, etc, the second or the fourth metacarpal or metatarsal (also splent bone)
2. 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

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