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† ˈrack-bone Obs. [rack n.4] A vertebra.
1615Crooke Body of Man 775 The transuerse processes of the racke-bones of the necke. Ibid. 800 The last spondels or rackbones of the chest. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. (1659) 259 The chine or back bone..is made up of four and thirty rack-bones. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. v. (1738) 67 The Rack-bones that are between the sixth Vertebrae of the Chest, and the middle of the Os sacrum. 1831W. Youatt Horse ix. 153 The other neck, or rack-bones, as they are denominated by the farrier,..are of a strangely irregular shape. |