(architecture) Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.

simple past tense and past participle of splay

To spread; spread out. / To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. / To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Spread out; turned outward. / Flat and ungainly.

A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

present participle of splay

A shape or motion that splays.

plural of splay

plural of splaying

plural of splay tree