Meanings
nounspadebone (plural spadebones)
plural spadebones
- UKobsoleteshoulder blade
a spadebone of a shoulder of mutton
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
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