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shackle-bone Sc. and dial.
[shackle n.1]
1. The wrist.
1571in Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. XIV. 93 The tormentaris..band baythe my handis at the schakilbanes withe a coird. 1622in Pitcairn Crim. Trials III. 509 Scho..tuik him be þe schaikill-bane with the ane hand. c1730Ramsay Boy & Pig 13 [He] drugs till he has maist disjointed His shekelbane. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xi, The shackle⁓bones are of the largest, and so they were obliged to keep the handcuff wide. 1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 65 His shackle-bane was as thick as baith mine.
2. The knuckle-bone; also ‘the hind leg of a pig's carcase, between the foot and the joint at which it is cut off’ (Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk.).
1822Galt Sir A. Wylie lxxxviii, Gin ye hae the shachle bane o' a mutton ham. |