raw-bone

comparative more raw-bone · superlative most raw-bone

1. alternativeAlternative form of rawbone.

   His raw-bone cheekes through penurie and pine, / VVere ſhronke into his iawes, as he did neuer dyne.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 129

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   Bradley was a tall, raw-bone man, heavily set, with a heavy beard and a mustache long enough to tie behind his ears.

   1892, T[heophilus] P[earce] Crutcher, “Bradley’s Arrest”, in Spurrier with the Wildcats and Moonshiners, Nashville, Tenn.: University Press, →OCLC, page 71

   A tall raw-bone looking man confers with some of the police and then slowly approaches Catherine and introduces himself.

   2002, Barry Raine, chapter 2, in Where the River Bends: A Memoir, Princeton, N.J.: Ontario Review Press, →ISBN, page 14