| 单词 | cockal bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockal bone cockal bone n. a tarsal or carpal bone, esp. the talus (astragalus); (chiefly in plural) such a bone, typically from a sheep or other hoofed animal, used to play either of the games described at sense 2; cf. sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > (parts of) leg or hoof cockal1562 cockal bone1603 sheepshank1675 fairney-cloots1822 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones > stones or bones cockal1562 check-stone1587 cockal bone1603 jackstone1678 chucker1760 Jack1863 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 466 He [sc. Lysander] used to say: That children were to be deceived with cock-all-bones [Fr. osselets; Gk. ἀστραγάλοις], but men with oaths. 1625 T. Godwin Romanae Historiae Anthologia (new ed.) ii. iii. xiii. 115 When all foure cocklebones appeared..all with different faces. 1773 T. Martyn & J. Lettice in tr. Antiq. Herculaneum I. App. 210 On the reverse are four cockall bones, with a sentence proper to gaming. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 721/1 The bones of the tarsus in the horse are, 1st, the astragalus, or ‘cockal-bone,’ as it is vulgarly named. 1874 Amer. Cycl. VIII. 825/2 The tarsus consists of six bones, the astragalus or cockal bone, the os calcis or heel bone, the cuboid, the navicular, and the middle and lesser cuneiform bones. < as lemmas |
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