huckle-bonen.
/ˈhʌk(ə)lbəʊn/ 1. The hip- or haunch-bone of a person or animal; the ischium or whole os innominatum. (Rarely the head of the thigh-bone which turns in the hip-joint.)
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone
hip boneeOE
coxec1400
haunch-bonec1405
huck-bonec1440
huckle-bone1529
sciatic?1541
coxendix1615
os coxae1634
pin bone1640
pin1703
coxa1706
huggin1740
1529 Malory's Mort Darthur (de Worde) xii. iii. sig. Kv/1 The bore roue hym on the brawne of the thyghe vp to the huckle bone [a1470 Winch. Coll. howghe-boone; 1485 Caxton hough-bone].
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxixv This infyrmyte [sc. Sciatica] doth come of harde lyenge on the hokyll bones.
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Acetabula,..the hollownesse wherein the huckle bone turneth.
?1572 tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde (new ed.) i. f. xliiii The knitting togeather of the hocle bone, with the lowest turnyng ioynt of the loynes.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong La boiste de os, the pan wherein the huckle bone falleth.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 807 The Thigh is that part which is betwixt the ioynt of the huckle bone and the knee.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads v. 67 Tydides..hit him on the Huckle bone, wherein Into the Hip inserted is the Thigh.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 264 A beast should be wide between both huckle bones.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 361 The hip or huckle bones should be wide apart, coming upon a level with the chine.
2. The astragalus or small bone which joints with the tibia, in the hock joint of a quadruped; the knuckle-bone.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > knuckle bone
knuckle-bonec1440
huckle-bone1542
shackle-bone1822
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice
diec1330
bicched bonesc1386
bonec1405
dalyc1440
huckle-bone1542
devil's bones1597
tat1688
St Hugh's bones1785
ivory1830
astragal1850
1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 164 (note) Αστράγαλος, is in Latin, talus, and it is the little square hucclebone, in the ancle place of the hyndre legge in all beastes sauyng manne.
1625 T. Godwin Romanae Historiae Anthologia (new ed.) ii. iii. xiii. 113 Talus, an huckle-bone, such wherewith children play Cockall.
1652 A. Ross Hist. World i. ii. 6 The King presents him with some golden dice, or huckle bones to play withall.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 74 Hucklebones or astragali were used in divination in ancient Rome.
1877 N.W. Linc. Gl. Huckle-bone, the astragalus, a small bone of a sheep, used for playing a game called..‘dibs’. The floors of summer~houses used frequently to be paved with huckle-bones.
Derivatives
huckle-boned adj. [see -ed suffix2]
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of hips
huckle-boned1683
horn-hipped1728
ragged-hipped1798
1683 London Gaz. No. 1850/8 A black Gelding..high Huckle-bon'd.
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