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- adjective Attributive form of
cannon bone , noun.
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Examples
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From creamy muzzle to cannon-bone, by God, hes a peerless wonder!
The Horse Thief 1917
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Her knees across the pan were wide, the cannon-bone below them short and thin; the pasterns long and sloping; her hoofs round, dark, shiny, and well set on.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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The _hock_ (20) is the large and freely movable joint which is immediately above the hind cannon-bone.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873
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Her knees across the pan were wide, the cannon-bone below them short and thin; the pasterns long and sloping; her hoofs round, dark, shiny, and well set on.
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The hinder cannon-bone answers to the middle metatarsal bone of the human foot, the pastern, coronary, and coffin bones, to the middle toe bones; the hind hoof to the nail, as in the fore-foot.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon-bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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He just put his leg down wrong and the cannon-bone snapped clean in two.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The Mahmood Al Zarooni-trained horse broke a cannon-bone and had to be put down immediately.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He Rewilding has put the leg down wrong, and he's broken the cannon-bone clean.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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