splat
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noun
Also splad. a broad, flat piece of wood, either pierced or solid, forming the center upright part of a chair back or the like.
a batten for covering joints between sheets of wallboard; panel strip.
Origin of splat
11825–35; origin uncertain; compare Old English splātan to split
splat
2[splat]
noun
Origin of splat
2First recorded in 1895–1900; back formation from splatter
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Historical Examples of splat
The splat, with its varying forms, denotes the date of the chair.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse FurnitureArthur Hayden
The stretchers across the two legs are half way up and are the Yorkshire form of splat stretcher.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse FurnitureArthur Hayden
Exhibiting florid turning and Yorkshire type of splat stretchers.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse FurnitureArthur Hayden
With sunk seat for squab cushion, turned uprights and legs and curious back, showing transition from lath back to splat back.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse FurnitureArthur Hayden
It was therefore natural that in the farmhouse examples the plain Dutch splat would readily find favour as more easily executed.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse FurnitureArthur Hayden
splat
1noun
Word Origin for splat
C19: of imitative origin
splat
2noun
Word Origin for splat
C19: perhaps related to Old English splātan to split
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