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hucklebone

hucklebone is the alternative form of huckle bone.

Meaning of huckle bone

Noun

huckle bone (plural huckle bones)

  1. (obsolete) The hip bone.
  2. (obsolete) The anklebone.
    • Ἀστράγαλος is in Latin, talus, and it is the little ſquare huccle bone, in the ancle place of the hinder legge in all beaſtes, ſauing man, […]1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious...

Forms of hucklebone

pluralhucklebones

Questions about hucklebone

What is hucklebone the alternative form of?
Hucklebone is the alternative form of huckle bone.

Words near hucklebone in the dictionary

  1. huckleberry
  2. huckleberry above a persimmon
  3. huckleberry above one's persimmon
  4. Huckleberry Finn
  5. huckleberrying
  6. hucklebone
  7. hucklebones
  8. hucklebuck
  9. hucklebucked
  10. hucklebucking
  11. hucklebucks

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