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Splay

noun
1.
An outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger.



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"Splay" Quotes from Famous Books



... who doesn't know a bulldog from a bed-spring isn't likely to be offering a thousand dollars to avenge the death of one. And the minute you answered my question as to whether you cared for dogs, I knew you didn't. When you fell for a green ribbon, and a splay-legged, curly-tailed medal-winner in the brindle bull class (there's no such class, by the way), I knew you were bluffing. Mr. Dorr, who—er—has ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the station was in a muddle,—heads, things, buildings. Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into the depths of darkness, and in return came ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Splay" :   chamfer, unfold, cant, open, displace, move, bevel, spread, turn


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