Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bone of a ball-and-socket joint, as in the hip.
- noun The patella; the kneepan or stifle-bone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete, obsolete, obsolete The huckle bone.
- noun obsolete The patella, or kneepan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
whirl-bone .
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