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1 splenta v. spinter
2 splenta, ~um, splinta, splintum [ME splent, splint] 1 metal plate (used in construction of armour or, as in quot., in construction or decoration of mazer). 1328 ciphus magnus sine pede, cum castore, barr. et splent. ‥ ciphus magnus cum ij ~is, una deaurata, alia non. ‥ ciphus magnus cum ij ~is, una operata alia non. ciphus ‥ cum splent’ in fundo ‥ cum circulo et ~o Hist. Cath. Cant. app. p. xxii; 1334 ciphus cum circulo argenteo et deaurato et diversis splintis Arch. J. LIII 277. 2 slender piece of wood, rod, lath, withy: a (for hurdle); b (in construction of mill); c (in wattle and daub construction of wall). a 1363 custus falde ‥ in xv clat’ de splent’ querc’, iij s. ix d. MinAc 840/25 m. 2.  b 1250 in quodam axe empto, ~is et ferr’ ad molendinum, vj s. MinAc 766/20; 1270 in uno novo axe et ~is ad vela molendini emptis Ib. 1118/17 r. 6; 1282 in splintr' ad vela predicti molendini (Ac. Cliffe) DCCant.; 1364 custus domorum et molendinorum in †sploutis [l. ~is], barris ‥ emptis, ij s. j d. MinAc Wistow 78.  c 1283 custus domus ‥ in m latis faciendis xij d., in splent’ fac’ iij d. ob.; in dicta domo cooperienda ij s. ix d. MinAc 840/3; 1296 in dim’ c ~is ad parietes colligendis Ib. 840/9; 1305 in humo fodienda ad daubacionem parietum nove domus iii s. ix d. in d. splintis ad idem emptis ii s. (Ac. Milton) DCCant.; 1306 in cc clavis emptis pro ~is atach[iandis] super parietes dicti domus dreszure MinAc 991/28. 3 thin piece of wood used to hold fractures or dislocated bone in position, splint. 1356 ~eis et pannis lineis †branchia [l. brachia] et tibias sua ligaverunt SelCKB VI 109. 4 splinter, fragment. 1223 abstracta fuit maxima ~ea ossis de brachio CurR XI 1079.

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