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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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``They have long claws and they dig and dig and dig,'' he continued, splaying Ferguson's feet wide with his fingertip.
Carotid catheter angiography demonstrated the typical splaying of the carotid vessels (lyre sign) (figure 2, B).
Access is via a double f light of outside/inside stairs, first within the cylindrical wall leading to a small external balcony beneath the belly of the Box; and second splaying upwards into that protuberance to fall almost vertiginously against a second voided corner.
 
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