Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
splint or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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splint + -like
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Examples
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His arm was immobilized in a splintlike dressing that left him unable to write.
Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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[89] I folded the condor's wing and stabilized the fracture by securing the wing up against its body with a figure eight, splintlike wrapping that works like a Chinese finger trap.
The Lake House Patterson, James, 1947- 2003
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We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splintlike bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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