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noun- A bone used in games and formerly in divination. Also: [Plural] noun: A game played with knucklebones or jacks.

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Usage examples (11)
  • It was a huge knucklebone from a cow, I think, or a pig.
  • Just after the photo Pritch nabbed a knucklebone as large as her head ... who can blame her?
  • With a piece of knucklebone-Ayla thought it came from a woolly rhinoceros -- Tronie mashed the seeds to a paste.
  • Most of the sailors on the beach were asleep except for a few sitting around fading campfires playing knucklebone dice.
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