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ˈcollar-bone
Each of the two bones that extend from the breast-bone to the shoulder-blade, forming part of the pectoral arch; the clavicle.
15..Sc. Poems 16th C. II. 169 Hely fell..And brake his necke and coller bane. 1615Crooke Body of Man 265 The patell or choler bones. 1712Steele Spect. No. 474 ⁋3 None should be admitted into this green conversation-piece, except he had broke his collar-bone thrice. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 199 All the quadrupeds that have collar-bones, use their fore-limbs in some measure as we use our hands. 1850Grote Greece ii. lviii. (1862) V. 177, I broke my collar-bone..by a fall from a young horse. |