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speal-bones

speal-bones is the plural of speal-bone.

Meaning of speal-bone

Noun

speal-bone (plural speal-bones)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) The shoulder blade.
    • In heteroscopic divination the process is rather one of inference from external facts. The methods are very various. […] In haruspication, or the inspection of entrails, in scapulomancy or divination by the speal-bone or shoulder-blade, in divination by footprints in ashes, found in Australia, Peru...1911, “Divination”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 333

Questions about speal-bones

What is speal-bones the plural of?
Speal-bones is the plural of speal-bone.

Words near speal-bones in the dictionary

  1. speaks well of
  2. speaks with a forked tongue
  3. speakworthy
  4. speal
  5. speal-bone
  6. speal-bones
  7. spealbone
  8. spealbones
  9. spean
  10. Spean Bridge
  11. speaned

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