shackle-bonen.
/ˈʃak(ə)lbəʊn/, U.S. /ˈʃæk(ə)lˌboʊn/, Scottish English /ˈʃak(ə)lbon/ Scottish and dialect.
1. The wrist.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > forearm > wrist
hand wristeOE
wrist?a940
rascettea1400
shackle-bone1571
shackle1788
1571 in Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. XIV. 93 The tormentaris..band baythe my handis at the schakilbanes withe a coird.
1622 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. III. 509 Scho..tuik him be þe schaikill-bane with the ane hand.
c1730 A. Ramsay Boy & Pig 13 [He] drugs till he has maist disjointed His shekelbane.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xi. 250 The shackle-bones are of the largest, and so they were obliged to keep the hand-cuff wide.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert 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’ (G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk.).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > knuckle bone
knuckle-bonec1440
huckle-bone1542
shackle-bone1822
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > defined by parts > (parts of) leg
gammon1486
shackle-bone1822
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. xviii. 152 Gin ye hae the shachle bane o' a mutton ham.
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