See speal-bone on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "A variant of spule (“shoulder”) + bane (“bone”).", "forms": [ { "form": "speal-bones", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "speal-bone (plural speal-bones)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Scottish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1911, “Divination”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 333:", "text": "In heteroscopic divination the process is rather one of inference from external facts. The methods are very various. […] In haruspication, or the inspection of entrails, in scapulomancy or divination by the speal-bone or shoulder-blade, in divination by footprints in ashes, found in Australia, Peru and Scotland, the voluntary element is prominent, for the diviner must take active steps to secure the conditions necessary to divination.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The shoulder blade." ], "id": "en-speal-bone-en-noun-tOs0-TtW", "links": [ [ "shoulder blade", "shoulder blade#Noun" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Scotland, obsolete) The shoulder blade." ], "tags": [ "Scotland", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "speal-bone" }
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