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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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