bonesetter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bonesetter
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at bone, setter
Example Sentences
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A boy playing in the yard fell and broke his arm; his mother rushed him not to a doctor but to a kuesero, a bonesetter with no formal training.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon.
From Time Magazine Archive
A talented bonesetter, he performed 18,000 operations in 14 years, mostly on feudists, miners, railroad men.
From Time Magazine Archive
She bows her old head to a voice that speaks to her loudly, her bonesetter, her medicineman: me she slights.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Our ancestors listened with awe and obedience to the warnings and behests of the medicine man, bloodletter, bonesetter, family doctor.
From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.
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