splaying

noun

splaying

noun

Etymology From splay + -ing.

1

A shape or motion that splays.

I point out at the top of the door three holes in the glass, an inch or so in diameter, clean holes that have left no cracks, only simple crater-shaped splayings around each orifice.1970, Hélène Cixous, The Third Body, page 60:

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