unsplay

English

Left: hand with fingers unsplayed. Right: with fingers splayed.

Etymology

un- +‎ splay

Verb

unsplay (third-person singular simple present unsplays, present participle unsplaying, simple past and past participle unsplayed)

1. (uncommon, especially of fingers) To bring together compactly.
   • 2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148:

     ... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely […]

   • 2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:

     ... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill […]