Splay

What do we mean by splay?

Spread or turned out. adjective

Clumsy or clumsily formed; awkward. adjective

An oblique angle or bevel given to the sides of an opening in a wall so that the opening is wider on one side of the wall than on the other. noun

To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart, especially clumsily. intransitive verb

To make slanting or sloping; bevel. intransitive verb

To dislocate (a bone). Used of an animal. intransitive verb

To be spread out or apart. intransitive verb

To slant or slope. intransitive verb

Same as spay.

To display; unfold; spread out; hence, to cut up; carve: as, to splay a fish.

To dislocate, as a horse's shoulder.

In architecture, to slope; form with an oblique angle, as the jambs or sides of a window. See the noun.

In cooperage, to form (a barrel) by drawing it together at the ends.

Spread or spreading out; wide and flat; turned outward; hence, clumsy; awkward. See splay-foot, splay-mouth.

Spread; flare. noun

In architecture, a sloped surface, or a surface which makes an oblique angle with another, as when the opening through a wall for a door or window widens from the position of the door or window proper toward the face of the wall. A large chamfer is called a splay. noun

In fortification, the outward widening of an embrasure from the mouth toward the exterior of the parapet. See embrasure. noun

Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly. adjective

To display; to spread. transitive verb

To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. transitive verb

A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

Words that are spelled similarly to splay:
splay, play, slay, spray, splat, spay, spla, uplay, sply, solay, splag, aplay, salay, silay, splav.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word splay:
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Words that rhyme with splay:
day, away, way, lay, play, bay, say, resume, grey, pay, convey, gray, relay, array, cache, survey, ray, sway, slay, display, dismay, may, stay, delay, holiday, fray, re, gay, cliche, waylay, dossier, buffet, cafe, essay, fiance, gourmet, everyday, allay, leeway, prey, clay, fillet, inlay, decay, k, fey, overlay, melee, gainsay, betray, stray, ok, quay, dna, underway, valet, portray, spray, sobriquet, weigh, entree, soiree, pray, asea, passe, yea, sunday, they, bouquet, protege, okay, yay, jay, astray, lei, latte, halfway, gateway, ballet, heyday, tray, friday, hay, obey, j, bray, anyway, x-ray, disarray, lingerie, railway, nay, mainstay, today, repay, sachet, usa, birthday, vertebrae, hey.

Adjectives that are often used to describe splay:
wide, internal, deep, inner, double, external, outward, slight, plain, broad, awkward, small, large, considerable, eastern, left, single, usual, less, narrow, exaggerated, opposite, outer, greater, bald, pronounced, simple, wall, pure, western, holocene, square, inward, bold, interior, bird, southern, architectural, marked, pale, flat, splennid, hindlimb, overhead, northern, downward, stepped, void, hand.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective splay:
feet, foot, trees, deposits, tree, angle, faults, outward, marks, leg, deformation, legs, fault, tongues, operation, bsts, walls, feathers, node, uniformity, sandstones, sands, hoofs, bend, distortion, angles, insertion, fingers, outwards, deposit, pattern, step, cut, cracks, faulting, term, modulus, knot, deposition, graft, end, phase, section, algorithm, mode, joints, street, mouth, saddle, casting, channels, steps, geometry, wall, mullions, sides, footed, variety, foots, sheaves, hands, tackle, twist, boot, camel, origin, beard, operations, joint, bents, brick, facies, tackles, shims, paws, thrusts, wire, fractures, bst, thumb, window, cutting, deformations, toes, junction, deformity.

Words that sound like splay:
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