† nut-bonen.
Obsolete.
A sesamoid bone; spec. the navicular bone of the horse.
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 973 Pliny calles them ossa orbiculata round or nut-bones.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Shoeing Thus the cannon-bone presses on the pastern, this on the coronary, the coronary upon the coffin, or foot-bone, and upon the nut-bone.
1816 D. P. Blaine Outl. Vet. Art (ed. 2) 74 Anterior extremities. Z. Navicular or nutbone.
1823 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 86 Of the horse, the bones are satisfactorily identified by various specimens of the teeth,..the sesamoid or nut-bone, and particularly by the terminal phalange or coffin-bone of the foot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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