Term: splint: an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
Candidate hypernym: mechanical device: mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles → 1
Candidate hypernym: littoral: the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean → 0
Candidate hypernym: yardstick: a ruler or tape that is three feet long → 0
Candidate hypernym: ducking: hunting ducks → 0
Candidate hypernym: pork and beans: dried beans cooked with pork and tomato sauce → 0
Candidate hypernym: dualism: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil → 0
Candidate hypernym: boy scout: a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts → 0
Candidate hypernym: lecture: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) → 0
Candidate hypernym: backbencher: a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader → 0
Candidate hypernym: cloudlessness: the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky → 0
Candidate hypernym: capsule: a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses → 0