splint

A thin piece split off from a larger piece; a splinter.

A rigid device used to prevent motion of a joint or of the ends of a fractured bone.

A dental appliance put on the teeth to protect them from grinding or from moving out of place.

A thin, flexible wooden strip, such as one used in the making of baskets or chair bottoms.

A plate or strip of metal.

A bony enlargement of the cannon bone or splint bone of a horse.

To support or restrict with or as if with a splint.

A variety of bituminous coal which is of a dull, stony luster and breaks in slab-like masses; splint-coal. It is contrasted with the shining variety or glance-coal, which breaks in cubes and which is often strongly coking, whereas splint-coal is not.

To splinter; shiver.