Definition of Shacklebones

1. shacklebone [n] - See also: shacklebone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shacklebones

shabeens
shabono
shabonos
shabrack
shabracks
shabu
shabynite
shack
shack up
shacked
shacked up
shacking
shacking up
shackle
shacklebone
shacklebones (current term)
shackled
shackler
shacklers
shackles
shacklike
shackling
shacklock
shacklocks
shackly
shacko
shackoes
shackos
shacks
shacks up

Literary usage of Shacklebones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Continental Monthly (1864)
"But what sort of a fellow was he when he came, in his spindles and shacklebones, from the womb of the All-mother ? Was he a Caucasian, or a Mongolian, ..."

2. Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life by Henry Larkin (1886)
"But who yet believes that " a white European Man, standing on his two Legs, with two five-fingered Hands at his shacklebones, and miraculous Head on his ..."

3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1874)
"Similarly, when we see a man, " a white European man, standing on his two legs, with his two five- fingered hands at his shacklebones, and miraculous head ..."

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