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splay
a surface of a wall that forms an oblique angle to the main flat surfaces, esp at a doorway or window opening
splay [splā]
(engineering)
A slanted or beveled surface making an oblique angle with another surface.
splay
A sloped surface, or a surface which makes an oblique angle with another, esp. at the sides of a door, window, proscenium, etc., so the opening is larger on one side than the other; a large chamfer; a reveal at an oblique angle to the exterior face of the wall.
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Its only weapons are its jaws since its broad, splay feet are armed with blunt talons.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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He would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have stamped his life out with a single blow.
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