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  • noun Plural form of whalebone.

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Examples

  • Giant whalebones arced up from the rocky ground, while ragged seaweed lined the edge.

    Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010

  • Not to excuse the attitude of Europeans ranging through the world's oceansin the 18th and 19th centuries - from whalebones, whale oil, and seal fur to clubbing dodos to death for the sheer joy of it, it's not a pleasant record.

    March 2009 2009

  • "To see my girls in those crinolines with expensive whalebones that those ladies up there wear, pretty paste on your cheeks, pearls around your swanlike necks; to see you swirling around at dances with kindly gentlemen on your arms, winning smiles on your lips and glass slippers on your feet."

    'Blonde Roots' 2009

  • This bench is going to be placed near the Royal Hotel, close to the whalebones for those of you that know the town, looking out to sea.

    September 22nd, 2007 dame_habonde 2007

  • The Eskimos, while hunting and fishing, used whalebones with slits to reduce the glare off the ice.

    OPEN YOUR EYES' The longest day of the year gives extra reason for people in the UK to take care of their eyes Thatsnews 2008

  • The Eskimos, while hunting and fishing, used whalebones with slits to reduce the glare off the ice.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Fans clap, silks rustle, and tough whalebones crack;

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • Wiseman essentially spouts buzzwords like innovation as if throwing up a few whalebones and calling it a museum actually gets at the core of the issue.

    The future of rural Newfoundland Ed Hollett 2007

  • On a slight platform on the seaward edge was a low, dome-shaped tent about fifteen feet across, its frame of whalebones covered with layers of sealskins and musk-ox hide.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • There was writing in his dressing-case, writing in his boots, writing among his shaving-tackle, writing in his hat-box, writing folded away down among the very whalebones of his umbrella.

    Somebody's Luggage 2007

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