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whirl-bone Obs. or dial.|ˈhwɜːlbəʊn|
Forms: 4–8 whirlebone, 5 whirle-, wherle-, whyrlebon, wherl-, werel-, qwhirl-, qworle-, qvyrlebone, 5–6 whyrl-, whorlebone, 5–7 whyrlebone, 6 whurle bone, (7 whall-bone), 8 hurle bone, dial. whirly booan, 9 Sc. whorle-bane, 6– whirlbone. (Also with hyphen, or as two words.)
[Replacing OE. hweorf-, hwyrfbán, hwe(o)rbán knee-cap, by substitution of whirl for the first element; cf. MLG. wervel(bên), G. wirbelbein vertebra.]
1. The round head of a bone turning in the socket of another bone; spec. that of the thigh-bone at the hip-joint (in later use esp. in the horse).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), Þei [sc. bones of the arms] beþ ykeuered with ioyntes whirlebones and grustel bones. [Mistranslation; ed. 1582 They are covered in joynts and whirlbones with gristles; L. in iuncturis et vertebris cartillagine vestiuntur.] c1440Promp. Parv. 421/1 Qvyrlylebone, yn a ioynt, ancha. Ibid. 524/2 Whyrlebone, or hole of a ioynt (S. whylbone), anca, vertebrum, vertibulum, condulus. 1548–77Vicary Anat. ix. (1888) 75 Ech of these two bones..hath a great rounde hole, into the whiche is receyued the bone called Vertebra, or The whorle bone. Ibid. x. 84 Vertebrum, or Whurle bone,..and is receyued into the boxe or hole of the hanche bone. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2046/4 A Black brown Gelding..a Strain in his Whirlebone. 1728Chambers Cycl., Hurle Bone, in an Horse, is a Bone near the Middle of the Buttocks very apt to go out of its Sockets with a Slip or Strain. 1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery xxix. (1754) 240 A lameness in the whirle bone and hip, is discovered by the horse's dragging his leg after him. 1814J. White Vet. Med. (ed. 2) III. 192 Injury of the Hip Joint, commonly called Whirl, or Hurdle Bone, or Round Bone. 1825Jamieson, Whorle-bane, the hip-bone or joint, Fife.
2. The round bone of the knee; the knee-pan, patella.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 590/19 Internodium,..the kne⁓panne, or wherlebon. 1530Palsgr. 288/1 Whyrlbone of ones kne, pallette de genouil. 1587Harrison England i. v. 11 in Holinshed, When the bodie of Aiax was found, the whirlebone of his knee was adiudged so broad as a pretie dish. 1611Cotgr., La charniere des genoux, the whall⁓bone, or whirle-bone, of the knees. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xv. xxii. (1678) 340 The Patella, or Whirl-bone of the Knee..is oft-times contused. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 52 He geete fro his Whirly booans, and sed..while his Heart beeots an his Blood sarclates there's Hopes. 1828Craven Gloss., Whirl-baan, the cap of the knee.
†3. A vertebra of the spine. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 3 Cap. vj. of woundis of þe rig⁓boon & of whirlebones [v.r. whirele bonys] of þe rigge. Ibid. 104 Make smale cauteries..bitwene ech whirlebon of þe necke. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. Man. iv. xiv. 349 Five Vertebræ or Whirle-bones of the Spina. |