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splayer

splayer noun: one who splays.

Noun

splayer (plural splayers)

  1. One who splays.
    • The soldiers on both sides start dropping to the ground. Every few seconds, another one slumps and splays on the eld. They are good splayers, these soldiers, arms and legs bent in all sorts of acute and obtuse angles.2009, A. J. Jacobs, My Life as an Experiment

Forms of splayer

pluralsplayers

Origin of splayer

From splay + -er.

Questions about splayer

What does splayer mean?
Splayer means one who splays.
What part of speech is splayer?
Splayer is a noun.
What is the plural of splayer?
The plural of splayer is splayers.

Words near splayer in the dictionary

  1. splay-footed
  2. splay-legged
  3. Splayd
  4. Splayds
  5. splayed
  6. splayer
  7. splayers
  8. splayfeet
  9. splayfoot
  10. splayfooted
  11. splayfootedness

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