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ruel-bones

ruel-bones is the plural of ruel-bone.

Meaning of ruel-bone

Noun

ruel-bone (plural ruel-bones)

  1. (archaic, literary) A piece of ivory, generally from a marine mammal.
    • RUEL-BONE Is mentioned by Chaucer, and in the following passage, as the material of a saddle. It is not, of course, to be thence supposed that ruel-bone was commonly or even actually used for that purpose,[…]1850, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, page 697

Questions about ruel-bones

What is ruel-bones the plural of?
Ruel-bones is the plural of ruel-bone.

Words near ruel-bones in the dictionary

  1. Rueifang
  2. rueing
  3. Rueisuei
  4. Ruel
  5. ruel-bone
  6. ruel-bones
  7. Ruelas
  8. Ruelases
  9. rueless
  10. ruelike
  11. ruelle

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