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单词 hucklebone
释义

hucklebone

[ huhk-uhl-bohn ]
/ ˈhʌk əlˌboʊn /

noun

hipbone.
knucklebone (def. 2).

Origin of hucklebone

First recorded in 1475–85; huckle + bone

Words nearby hucklebone

huckery, huckle, huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of, hucklebone, huckster, hucksterer, HUD, Huddersfield, huddle
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Example sentences from the Web for hucklebone

  • Here cockal is the old name for a game with four hucklebones (Halliwell), and is further made to mean the hucklebone itself.

    Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer

British Dictionary definitions for hucklebone

hucklebone
/ (ˈhʌkəlˌbəʊn) /

noun archaic

the anklebone; talus
the hipbone; innominate bone
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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