释义 |
shoulder-bone = shoulder-blade.
c1320Sir Beues 4217 His riȝt arm & is scholder bon He made fle to gronde anon. c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 146 Les espaules ount blasouns [glossed chuldel-bones; v.rr. the soldre-bon, scholder-bon]. c1386Chaucer Pard. Prol. 22 Thanne haue [I] in laton a sholder boon Which that was of an hooly Iewes sheepe. c1460Towneley Myst. xxiii. 260 Godys son..hase not where apon his hede to rest Bot on his shuder bone. 1548–77Vicary Anat. vii. (1888) 48 In the shoulder there be two bones,..the Shoulder bone, and the Cannel bone. 1691R. Kirk Secret Commw. i. (1815) 17 The minor Seers prognosticat many future Events,..from the Shoulder-bone of a Sheep. 1858W. Ellis Madagascar v. 125 The sides..were edged..with the shoulder-bones of oxen stuck in the ground, the broad part upwards. |