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Examples
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JOE: (Standing the bone up on the floor of the porch) Dis is a hock-bone of Brazzle's ole yaller mule.
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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WALTER: How you reckon we gointer know every hock-bone in Orange
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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When the hams are cured separately from the sides, which is generally the case, they are cut out so as to include the hock-bone, in a similar manner to the London mode of cutting a haunch of mutton.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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When the hams are cured separately from the sides, which is generally the case, they are cut out so as to include the hock-bone, in a similar manner to the London mode of cutting a haunch of mutton.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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