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Definition of Splayed
1. splay [v] - See also: splay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splayed
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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