单词 | spade-bone |
释义 | spade-bonen. Chiefly dialect. The shoulder blade. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [noun] > shoulder bone shoulder bladea1300 shoulder bladea1300 shoulder-bonec1320 spauld-bonec1400 omoplate?a1425 scapple1578 scapula1578 shield-bonec1600 spade-bone1612 plate-bonea1665 speal-bone1771 blade-bone1845 α. β. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 169 To humble the Cardinals pride, some afterwards set up on a window, a painted Mastiff-dog, gnawing the spate-bone of a shoulder of Mutton.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spate-bone, Spaut-bone, the shoulder-bone of an animal slain for food.1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 81 A diuination strange.., By th' shoulder of a Ram,..Which vsuallie they boile, the spade-boane beeing bar'd. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Spade-bone, vox agro Lincoln. usitatissima. 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Spade-bone, the shoulder bone; the blade bone. 1844 G. Borrow in W. I. Knapp Life G. Borrow (1899) I. 394 Mahomet,..it is said, wrote his Coran on mutton spade bones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1612 |
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