splint

Etymology
From, , , from , or ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬. All ultimately from, , from , , from a nasalized form of , from.

Noun

 * 1) A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
 * 2)  A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
 * 3)  A device to immobilize a body part.
 * 4)  A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
 * 5)  A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
 * 6)  A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
 * 1)  A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
 * 2)  A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
 * 1)  A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Usage notes

 * For a horse to is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian: тънка ивица,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: tala
 * Hungarian: gyújtópálca
 * Irish: spliota, meathán
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 添木
 * Latvian: skaida
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: splint, flis
 * Nynorsk: splint, flis
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: и̏вер, тре̏ска
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: latka


 * Afrikaans: spalk
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ши́на
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: férula
 * German:, Gipsschiene
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νάρθηξ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: spelka
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: serperastrum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tāhū
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̏длага
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: balangkat
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zulu:


 * Bulgarian: ши́на
 * German: Protrusionsschiene
 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Bulgarian: надкостница
 * Finnish: puikkoluu
 * Italian: soprosso, schinella, spinella, esostosi

Verb

 * 1)  To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
 * 2) To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
 * 3)  To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шинирам
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: накла́дывать ши́ну
 * Ukrainian: накла́дати ши́ну, накла́сти ши́ну

Noun

 * 1) sapwood