It was a huge knucklebone from a cow, I think, or a pig. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference
Just after the photo Pritch nabbed a knucklebone as large as her head ... who can blame her?. From Wordnik.com. [Rawhide: Good or Bad for Pup?] Reference
With a piece of knucklebone-Ayla thought it came from a woolly rhinoceros -- Tronie mashed the seeds to a paste. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Most of the sailors on the beach were asleep except for a few sitting around fading campfires playing knucklebone dice. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
Sheep knucklebone floors were a passing fad among 19th-century estate owners, used for decorating gothic grottos and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland] Reference
I am offering you a job with importance for no reason except I think you can do it better than some knucklebone heads on Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
When Mark Funkhouser decided to run for mayor in late 2006, he seemed like an answer to Kansas City's prayers: a lifelong public servant without so much as a knucklebone of corruption in his closet. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
There might have been more pork on the knucklebone, -- which knucklebone the carver at the cook's shop had assuredly not forgotten in carving for previous customers -- but there was no stint of seasoning, and that is an accessory dreamily suggesting pork, and pleasantly cheating the sense of taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain] Reference
But it’s just so pretty: I can’t decide whether to keep it for pirate booty or save it for my knucklebone collection. somewhat like “The Amityville Toaster” but only partial dead hand involved. From Wordnik.com. [My ossuary, zombie armies & your brains] Reference
There might have been more pork on the knucklebone, — which knucklebone the carver at the cook’s shop had assuredly not forgotten in carving for previous customers — but there was no stint of seasoning, and that is an accessory dreamily suggesting pork, and pleasantly cheating the sense of taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain] Reference
Era, mentioned the inhabitants of Belerium as miners and smelters of tin, and wrote: "After beating it up into knucklebone shapes, they carry it to a certain island lying off Britain named Ictis (probably the Isle of Wight), and thence the merchants buy it from the inhabitants and carry it over to Gaul, and lastly, travelling by land through Gaul about thirty days, they bring down the loads on horses to the mouth of the. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
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