Splay
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To spay; to castrate.
(2): ( v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(3): ( v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
(4): ( a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
(5): ( a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
(6): ( v. t.) To display; to spread.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(old Fr. disployer), the expansion given to doorways, windows, and other openings in walls, etc., by slanting the sides. This mode of construction prevails in Gothic architecture, especially on the inside of windows, but is very rarely, if ever, used in classical architecture. The term is also applied to other slanted or sloped surfaces, such as cants, bevels, etc.
