rawbone
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]rawbone (comparative more rawbone, superlative most rawbone)
- Alternative form of rawboned
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:
- His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine / Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne.