"ridgebone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1815, G. LLOYD (Riding Master, and SYMES (R.)), R. SYMES, The Improved Art of Riding, Etc",
          "text": "Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism."
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          "ref": "2005, Brock Brower, Nancy Lawton, Blue Dog, Green River",
          "text": "And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below. \"That ridgebone is the river, I swear. Rising sun hits it dead the same way, only earlier, over the plateau.",
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          "text": "[…]; a Drynnian ridgebone was made for combat, hunting, and tunneling rock. It was also a very good shield and with it, he parried the blow meant for his head.",
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          "ref": "2015, Adele DeGirolamo, Stolen Child - In-Between: Book Two",
          "text": "“Voila, my little angry one,” Markus spoke, looking at the foreign piece of junk that had been yanked free without any further struggle, straight out of the ridgebone of his back.",
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        "(anatomy, rare, also figuratively) The backbone or spine."
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