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splay

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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.


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Its only weapons are its jaws since its broad, splay feet are armed with blunt talons.
Splay hoofs and palmated antlers they knew, and they flung their customary patience and caution to the wind.
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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