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spealbone

spealbone is the alternative form 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

Forms of spealbone

pluralspealbones

Questions about spealbone

What is spealbone the alternative form of?
Spealbone is the alternative form of speal-bone.

Words near spealbone in the dictionary

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

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