Definition of Splayed

1. Verb. (past of splay) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splayed

1. splay [v] - See also: splay

Lexicographical Neighbors of Splayed

splatterday
splattered
splatterer
splatterers
splatterfest
splatterfests
splattering
splatterings
splatterproof
splatterpunk
splatters
splatterspunks
splattery
splatting
splay
splayed (current term)
splayfeet
splayfoot
splayfooted
splaying
splays
spleen
spleen deoxyribonuclease
spleen endonuclease
spleen focus-forming viruses
spleen metastases
spleen phosphodiesterases
spleened
spleenful

Literary usage of Splayed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"No, that was one of the little bone tableaux, a field mouse's dried bones splayed in an anatomically correct mystic hieroglyph. Marci hauled him away, ..."

2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"No, that was one of the little bone tableaux, a field mouse's dried bones splayed in an anatomically correct mystic hieroglyph. Marci hauled him away, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1901)
"3/ In the north wall of the hall there originally existed a deeply splayed window, while beneath it a small arched doorway led through a little passage-way ..."

4. The Stonemason and the Bricklayer: Being Practical Details and Drawings (1891)
"splayed" Bricks.—"King Closers." If a brick be thus cut across in the direction of its ... This forms what is called also a " splayed brick," as at j, ..."

5. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Sith, on the victim's splayed warm hide, Before the altar, the pale outraged queen Sate down. The people flock to her, and mourn. With face as night, ..."

6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"splayed work in joinery is the term applied to cases in which some of the surfaces slope or slant away from, or towards, other surfaces, such as the sides ..."

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