Meanings
nounhuckle bone (plural huckle bones)
plural huckle bones · alternative huckle-bone · alternative hucklebone
- obsoleteThe hip bone.
- obsoleteThe anklebone.
Ἀστράγαλος is in Latin, talus, and it is the little ſquare huccle bone, in the ancle place of the hinder legge in all beaſtes, ſauing man, […]
1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 119, recto
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