spadebone

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English

Etymology

From spade +‎ bone?

Alternative forms

spade-bone, spade bone

Noun

spadebone (plural spadebones)

(UK, obsolete) shoulder blade
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
  a spadebone of a shoulder of mutton

References

“spadebone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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