Most fractures, or broken bones, in children or young boys or girls, heal very rapidly; and if the limb be properly straightened and splintedby competent hands, it will be practically as good and as strong as before the accident.
Parker Gordon is in sharp contrast to the heavily splintedsides of the wooden brace commonly used in mid-19th-century America.
This was followed in the very early 19th century by the reinforced English type whose sides were splinted by brass strips.
We find many references to these splinted defences in the Inventories of the period, which form a valuable source of information on the subject of details of armour.
Iron was used for the mail and scale armour and was also employed in making a pliable defence called Splinted armour, which at a later period became the Brigandine (Plate II).
The thighs were enclosed in cuissarts of steel, back and front plates hinging upon the outside of the legs and buckled between the thighs, thus differing from the Splinted Armour Period, when front plates only were invariably used.
Perhaps the defence most in vogue was of the splinted kind, which consisted of parallel bands of steel arranged in vertical lines and embedded in pourpoint with studs showing, or affixed to cuir-bouilli.
During the Splinted and Camail Periods the men-at-arms invariably dismounted and fought upon foot, and in order to adapt the lance to these altered conditions it was cut down to about five feet in length.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splinted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
