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- noun anatomy A bone in the arm, specifically, the
humerus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was as if a man on the gallows were to continue to breathe by a broken armbone, and afforded us an illustration of the fact, that in birds, the vital air penetrates every part of the interior of their bodies.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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I felt my armbone crack with a noise like a dry branch snapping, and tasted marrow warm and salty, slippery on my tongue.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Only four miles from camp, he spotted a fragment of an armbone poking from a slope.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Only four miles from camp, he spotted a fragment of an armbone poking from a slope.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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They handed a cloth down to him, and he spread it beside the slight skeleton, and with infinite care eased her free of the loose soil, and edged her by inches into the shroud of linen, laying the disturbed armbone in its proper place.
A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977
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A musket bullet had crashed into Côtard's upper armbone, shattering it.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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This was as if a man on the gallows were to continue to breathe by a broken armbone, and afforded us an illustration of the fact, that in birds, the vital air penetrates every part of the interior of their bodies.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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We had an Italian reliquary, complete with a saint’s armbone.
more lost prose 2008
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[_The armbone of a prehistoric lion has been discovered in Fleet Street during the excavations for the new offices of "The Daily Chronicle."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 Various
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