Balkan frame

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noun

an overhead frame, fastened to a bed, from which a splinted, fractured leg or arm is suspended and held in traction.

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Origin of Balkan frame

First recorded in 1925–30; so called because first used in the Balkan Mountains

Words nearby Balkan frame

Baliol, balisage, balistraria, balk, Balkan, Balkan frame, balkanization, Balkanize, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Peninsula, Balkans

How to use Balkan frame in a sentence

The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
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She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.
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The woman had had two strokes and was generally in a dark frame of mind.
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But confirmation of that time frame has also been hard to come by.
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“For your $30 million Ruschas and $60 million Rothkos, you need to see the quality of the frame and brushstrokes,” he says.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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There was a slight shuddering movement of his whole frame—Bob was dead.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The scarlet calico canopy was again set up over the bed, and the woven cradle, on its red manzanita frame, stood near.
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Old Warrender retired to his study in a rather excited frame of mind, excusing himself on the ground of his age.
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William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.
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