Splint

(noun.) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg).

(noun.) a thin sliver of wood; 'he lit the fire with a burning splint'.

(verb.) support with a splint; 'splint a broken finger'.

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• The terms semi-anthracite, semi-bituminous, coking coal, splint coal, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• After staying there twenty-four hours, the trainmen made snowshoes of fence-rail splints and started out to find food, which they did about a half mile away. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Others for making splints and the matches separately, quickly followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The splints are collected into bundles of one thousand, and each end having been dipped into melted sulphur, they are divided in the middle by a circular saw. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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