spadebone

English

Alternative forms

spade-bone, spade bone

Etymology

From spade +‎ bone?

Noun

spadebone (plural spadebones)

1. (UK, obsolete) shoulder blade
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     a spadebone of a shoulder of mutton

References

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