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Definition of Rawboned
1. Adjective. Having a lean and bony physique. "A rawboned cow hand"
Definition of Rawboned
1. a. Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.
Definition of Rawboned
1. Adjective. Describing a person as being thin and bony, having prominent bones, rugged but not necessarily handsome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rawboned
1. having little flesh [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawboned
Literary usage of Rawboned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported by Thomas Carlyle (1841)
"One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford : the rough, seamy-faced,
rawboned College Servitor stalking about, in winter-season, with his shoes ..."
2. On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle (1841)
"One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford: the rough, seamy-faced,
rawboned College Servitor stalking about, in winter-season, with his shoes ..."
3. The Great English Essayists by William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson (1909)
"One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford: the rough, seamy-faced,
rawboned College Servitor stalking about, in winter-season, with his shoes ..."
4. The Great English Essayists by William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson (1909)
"One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford: the rough, seamy-faced,
rawboned College Servitor stalking about, in winter-season, with his shoes ..."
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