Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The depression in the breast-bone; also, the breast-bone.
  • noun The navel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A part of the breastbone.

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  • A darling term for that little dent at the end of your sternum (hyphenated likely because it might otherwise read heart's poon, which isn't at all the intended image).

    July 7, 2008