splint-bone
Also splint bone, 9 splent bone.
[splint n. 5, 10.]
1. Farriery. † a. = splint n. 5. Obs. b. One or other of the two small metacarpal bones of the foreleg of a horse, lying behind and in close contact with the cannon-bone or shank.
| 1704 Lond. Gaz. No. 4027/4 A Splint Bone in the inside of her near fore Leg. 1831 Youatt Horse 64 The larger metacarpal or cannon or shank in front, the smaller metacarpal or splent bone behind. 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 244 The small bone called ‘splint-bone’, by veterinarians, articulated to the ‘mesocuneiform’, is the stunted metatarsal of the second toe..; the outer ‘splint-bone’, articulated to the ‘cuboides’, is the similarly stunted metatarsal of the fourth toe. 1881 Fortn. Rev. Dec. 751 But on each side of this enlarged toe there are, beneath the skin, rudimentary bones of two other toes, the so-called splint-bones. |
2. Anat. = fibula 2.
| 1859 in Mayne Expos. Lex. |