marrowbones

British  

/ ˈmærəʊˌbəʊnz /

plural noun

1. facetious the knees

2. a rare word for crossbones See skull and crossbones

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marrowbones

Elsewhere in offal, the new, well-hidden Simbal, also in Little Tokyo, serves its marrowbones with the Chinese crullers called you tiao, and Amy Scattergood is there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2015

There he sat cracking marrowbones, neat, tough, durable, his sleek furlike hair shedding the water like a bird’s feathers: he dripped a little onto his shoulders, like house-eaves dripping, and never noticed it.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

This was a rogue that would cozen us both; he thought I did not know him: Down on your marrowbones, and confess the truth: Have you no tongue, you rascal?

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

Then they would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him to come back when he had recovered his senses.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

A French sailor, who was working on the beach, killing and pickling the meat, had been plundered by an Englishman, who "took away the marrowbones he had taken out of the ox."

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield