SPLAYED

Etymology

Adjective

splayed (not comparable)

(architecture) Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.

Verb

splayed

simple past tense and past participle of splay

Source: Wiktionary


SPLAY

Splay, v. t. Etym: [Abbrev. of display.]

1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne.

2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

Splay, a.

Definition: Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold.

Splay, a. (Arch.)

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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