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Definition of Turkey drumstick
1. Noun. The lower joint of the leg of a turkey.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turkey Drumstick
Literary usage of Turkey drumstick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"says Mrs. Ponto ; and indeed it was a finger, as knotted as a turkey's drumstick,
and splaying all over the piano. When she had banged out the tune slowly, ..."
2. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad
female, all of whom are of the turkey- drumstick style of organization. ..."
3. The Howells Story Book by William Dean Howells (1900)
""A turkey's drumstick is all full of little wooden splinters, anyway." "And what
did the mamma say?" asked the little girl. " Oh, she kept saying,' Now you ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"says Mrs. Ponto ; and indeed it was a finger, as knotted as a turkey's drumstick,
and splaying all over the piano. When she had banged out the tune slowly, ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"says Mrs. Ponto ; and indeed it was a finger, as knotted as a turkey's drumstick,
and splaying all over ..."
6. Cruising The Eastern Caribbean by Laura Rapp (2004)
"Shaped like a turkey drumstick, St. Kitts has a volcano, Mt. Liamuiga, at the
northern end of the island (representing the fat end of the drumstick), ..."
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