Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very lean person or animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative A very
lean person or animal, especially a lean horse.
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Examples
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One of them was about an old rackabones of a horse, a sort of preliminary study for
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One of them was about an old rackabones of a horse, a sort of preliminary study for "Oahu," of the Sandwich Islands, or "Baalbec" and
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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One of them was about an old rackabones of a horse, a sort of preliminary study for "Oahu," of the Sandwich Islands, or "Baalbec" and
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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