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splay

[spley]
–verb (used with object)
1. to spread out, expand, or extend.
2. to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
3. to make with a splay or splays.
4. to disjoin; dislocate.
–verb (used without object)
5. to have an oblique or slanting direction.
6. to spread or flare.
–noun
7. Architecture. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall.
–adjective
8. spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
9. clumsy or awkward.
10. oblique or awry.

Origin:
1300–50; ME; aph. form of display
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splay  (v.)
"to spread out," c.1330, shortened form of desplayen (see display). Pp. adj. splayed "spread out" is attested from c.1547.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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