spadebone

English

Alternative forms

spade-bone, spade bone

Etymology

From spade +‎ bone?

Noun

spadebone (plural spadebones)

  1. (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

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