bladebone

American  

[bleyd-bohn] / ˈbleɪdˌboʊn /

noun

1. the scapula, or shoulder blade.

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Etymology

Origin of bladebone

First recorded in 1670–80; blade + bone ( def. )

Example Sentences

They toasted to the occasion by heading to the Bladebone Inn for champagne.

From Fox News

“You always hear, ‘This field has been done to death, what else is there left?’ ” said author Ausma Zehanat Khan, whose book “The Bladebone,” the final installment of her Khorasan Archives fantasy series, is due out in October.

From Washington Post

You see, he was struck from above; the wound is just behind the shoulderbone, and it has gone right down inside the bladebone, but has missed the lungs altogether—at least, we think so.

From Project Gutenberg

Martin Fidler, 60, who runs Bladebone butchers in Chapel Row said he "jumped through the ceiling with joy" when he and his wife, also 60, received the invitation from Buckingham Palace.

From BBC

And a busy shop was Mrs Slagg’s, a shop where, in place of the customary gibbeted black doll, hung a painted and lettered huge bladebone that might, from its size, have belonged to the celebrated vastotherium itself, only that it was composed of wood, carved in his leisure hours with a shoemaker’s knife, as a delicate attention to Mrs Slagg, by her neighbour, Isaac Gross.

From Project Gutenberg