Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knobbed bone, as of a knuckle or joint.
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- noun A
bone that forms aknuckle in the human hand, in an animal'spaw or any bone that forms a similar bump. - noun slang A
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Examples
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Just after the photo Pritch nabbed a knucklebone as large as her head ... who can blame her?
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Just after the photo Pritch nabbed a knucklebone as large as her head ... who can blame her?
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Sheep knucklebone floors were a passing fad among 19th-century estate owners, used for decorating gothic grottos and the like.
Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland Phil Gates 2010
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It was a huge knucklebone from a cow, I think, or a pig.
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Beside her might have lain the tiny items that she used in her ritual: amber, seashells, knucklebone, and glass.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Beside her might have lain the tiny items that she used in her ritual: amber, seashells, knucklebone, and glass.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Beside her might have lain the tiny items that she used in her ritual: amber, seashells, knucklebone, and glass.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Beside her might have lain the tiny items that she used in her ritual: amber, seashells, knucklebone, and glass.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Apocalyptic knucklebone, black-letter font so antique among the modern things, you cause the room to flinch at my intrusion, quaver in corners, trill in mortised triplets the crowded heavy boots, sodden mat, stiff thicket of broom.
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“Bonsoir yourself,” Lesgourges replied, as he popped a curved knucklebone into his mouth, to suck it clean.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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