sidebone

English

Etymology

From side +‎ bone.

Noun

sidebone (plural sidebones)

1. A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
   • 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:

     ringbone and sidebone co-exist in the same leg, […] where the three bones are completely anchylosed

References

“sidebone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ebonised