bone-breakern.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊnbreɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈboʊnˌbreɪkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, breaker n.¹

Etymology: < bone n.¹ + breaker n.¹In sense 1a apparently ultimately after classical Latin ossifragus, ossifraga, lit. ‘bone-breaker’ (in quot. 1598 via Italian: see ossifrage n. and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry); compare (in the same sense, after Latin) Dutch beenbreker (1605), German Beinbrecher (1561; also Old High German beinbruchil ). In sense 1b after Spanish quebrantahuesos, lit. ‘(one) who breaks bones’, denoting the southern giant petrel (16th cent. or earlier), perhaps a specific use of quebrantahuesos , denoting various birds of prey (13th cent.; apparently also reflected in quot. 1998 at sense 1a), itself probably originally after Latin.

a. A large bird of prey, usually identified as the bearded vulture (or lammergeier), Gypaetus barbatus, or the osprey, Pandion haliaetus; = ossifrage n. 1. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey)

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ossifraga, a kind of hauke or eagle called a bone-breaker.

1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. lv. 119 Now the birds that portend future things by their flying are, viz. Buzzards, the bone-Breakers [L. sanqualae], Eagles, Vulturs, Cranes, Swans, and the like.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 137 A Third Kind of Eagle in the Cape-Countries is call'd Ossifrage, or the Bone-Breaker.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. II. 494/1 It [sc. the Lämmer Geyer] pursues the chamois, young ibex, mountain deer, or marmot, among precipices, until it drives..the game over the brink, to be dashed to pieces below, and thus deservedly obtaining the name of bone-breaker.

1965 Country Life 10 June 1458/1 Known to the ancients as the ossifrage, or bone-breaker, it was probably the bird that dropped the tortoise on the head of Aeschylus.

1998 Sunday Times (Nexis) 12 July Apart from the bone-breaker, what I had most wanted to see at Aigues Tortes was the parnassius apollo, a high-flyer found only in mountain country.

b. A bird or mammal that feeds on bones; (in early use) spec. †the southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus (obsolete).

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1787 T. Pennant Suppl. to Arctic Zool. 72 From the vast strength of their bills, they certainly are a redoubtable foe: the Spaniards, from that circumstance, call them Quebrantahuessos, or the Bone-breaker.

1823 tr. J. P. F. Deleuze Hist. & Descr. Royal Mus. Nat. Hist. II. v. 382 The largest of them (p[rocellaria] gigantea) has been called the bone-breaker, from the strength of its beak.

1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 51 Some of them [sc. fossil mammals] possessed teeth of extraordinary strength, and were apparently bone breakers.

1903 New Internat. Encycl. XIII. 1017/2 In the Indian Ocean and about the shores of Australia occurs the giant of the family, the huge ‘bone-breaker’ (Ossifraga gigantea).

1982 Science 29 Jan. 495/3 In mechanical terms, spotted hyenas are probably stronger than wolves as bone breakers.

2003 Jrnl. Mammalogy 84 1269/1 Carnivore species were classified into 6 dietary categories: hypercarnivorous (meat only), mesocarnivorous (meat), bone breakers (meat and bone), [etc.].

2. A person who or thing which breaks bones, or is capable of breaking bones. Frequently hyperbolical. Cf. bone-breaking adj. at bone n.¹ Compounds 6.

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1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxvii. 234 I would not ride the same way back as I came, to avoid my bone-breakers.

1838 Champion & Weekly Herald 30 Apr. 1611 With what acclamations will our police-loving people receive the invention or re-adoption of racks, stretchers, bone-breakers, flesh-tearers, or any thing..that may have the name of punishing guilt and forcing respect for the law!

1847 Paddiana I. 223 An Irishman may be called, par excellence, ‘the bone-breaker’ among men, the homo ossifragus of the human family; and in the indulgence of this their natural propensity, there is a total and systematic disregard of fair play.

1884 Science 16 May 590/2 He had never known this utensil to be used as a weapon, and thought Dr. Abbot's figure was definitely a bone-breaker.

1915 H. Payson Motor Cycle Chums through Hist. Amer. xxviii. 270 There were two fellers went through here about two hours ago on benzine bone-breakers.

1931 Boys' Life Dec. 68/2 The big beheading knife that was used still lies rusting on the deck of the Ning-Po; also..bone-breakers and thumb-screws with which confessions were forced.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 31 Jan. 59 A heavy challenge..on Nick Montgomery was a possible bone-breaker.

2014 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Sport section) 25 Some rated him the greatest heavy of all, a brooding, malevolent monster, one-time bone-breaker for the Mob.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bone-breaker
释义	bone-breakern. Brit. /ˈbəʊnbreɪkə/, U.S. /ˈboʊnˌbreɪkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, breaker n.¹ Etymology: < bone n.¹ + breaker n.¹In sense 1a apparently ultimately after classical Latin ossifragus, ossifraga, lit. ‘bone-breaker’ (in quot. 1598 via Italian: see ossifrage n. and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry); compare (in the same sense, after Latin) Dutch beenbreker (1605), German Beinbrecher (1561; also Old High German beinbruchil ). In sense 1b after Spanish quebrantahuesos, lit. ‘(one) who breaks bones’, denoting the southern giant petrel (16th cent. or earlier), perhaps a specific use of quebrantahuesos , denoting various birds of prey (13th cent.; apparently also reflected in quot. 1998 at sense 1a), itself probably originally after Latin. 1. a. A large bird of prey, usually identified as the bearded vulture (or lammergeier), Gypaetus barbatus, or the osprey, Pandion haliaetus; = ossifrage n. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey) pygarga1398 ospreyc1450 ospring1530 water eagle1562 bone-breaker1598 ospringer?1611 ossifrage1658 fish-eagle1678 fishing hawk1694 fishing eaglea1792 eagle fisher1801 fish-hawk1808 break-bones1838 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ossifraga, a kind of hauke or eagle called a bone-breaker. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. lv. 119 Now the birds that portend future things by their flying are, viz. Buzzards, the bone-Breakers [L. sanqualae], Eagles, Vulturs, Cranes, Swans, and the like. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 137 A Third Kind of Eagle in the Cape-Countries is call'd Ossifrage, or the Bone-Breaker. 1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. II. 494/1 It [sc. the Lämmer Geyer] pursues the chamois, young ibex, mountain deer, or marmot, among precipices, until it drives..the game over the brink, to be dashed to pieces below, and thus deservedly obtaining the name of bone-breaker. 1965 Country Life 10 June 1458/1 Known to the ancients as the ossifrage, or bone-breaker, it was probably the bird that dropped the tortoise on the head of Aeschylus. 1998 Sunday Times (Nexis) 12 July Apart from the bone-breaker, what I had most wanted to see at Aigues Tortes was the parnassius apollo, a high-flyer found only in mountain country. b. A bird or mammal that feeds on bones; (in early use) spec. †the southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that eats specific things worm-fowlc1381 seed fowlc1500 thistle-eater1562 chipper1668 honeyeater1688 wheat-bird1747 falcon-fisher1759 worm-eater1760 bone-breaker1787 seed eater1820 carrion-bird1839 seed feeder1853 fish-tiger1879 1787 T. Pennant Suppl. to Arctic Zool. 72 From the vast strength of their bills, they certainly are a redoubtable foe: the Spaniards, from that circumstance, call them Quebrantahuessos, or the Bone-breaker. 1823 tr. J. P. F. Deleuze Hist. & Descr. Royal Mus. Nat. Hist. II. v. 382 The largest of them (p[rocellaria] gigantea) has been called the bone-breaker, from the strength of its beak. 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 51 Some of them [sc. fossil mammals] possessed teeth of extraordinary strength, and were apparently bone breakers. 1903 New Internat. Encycl. XIII. 1017/2 In the Indian Ocean and about the shores of Australia occurs the giant of the family, the huge ‘bone-breaker’ (Ossifraga gigantea). 1982 Science 29 Jan. 495/3 In mechanical terms, spotted hyenas are probably stronger than wolves as bone breakers. 2003 Jrnl. Mammalogy 84 1269/1 Carnivore species were classified into 6 dietary categories: hypercarnivorous (meat only), mesocarnivorous (meat), bone breakers (meat and bone), [etc.]. 2. A person who or thing which breaks bones, or is capable of breaking bones. Frequently hyperbolical. Cf. bone-breaking adj. at bone n.¹ Compounds 6. ΚΠ 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxvii. 234 I would not ride the same way back as I came, to avoid my bone-breakers. 1838 Champion & Weekly Herald 30 Apr. 1611 With what acclamations will our police-loving people receive the invention or re-adoption of racks, stretchers, bone-breakers, flesh-tearers, or any thing..that may have the name of punishing guilt and forcing respect for the law! 1847 Paddiana I. 223 An Irishman may be called, par excellence, ‘the bone-breaker’ among men, the homo ossifragus of the human family; and in the indulgence of this their natural propensity, there is a total and systematic disregard of fair play. 1884 Science 16 May 590/2 He had never known this utensil to be used as a weapon, and thought Dr. Abbot's figure was definitely a bone-breaker. 1915 H. Payson Motor Cycle Chums through Hist. Amer. xxviii. 270 There were two fellers went through here about two hours ago on benzine bone-breakers. 1931 Boys' Life Dec. 68/2 The big beheading knife that was used still lies rusting on the deck of the Ning-Po; also..bone-breakers and thumb-screws with which confessions were forced. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 31 Jan. 59 A heavy challenge..on Nick Montgomery was a possible bone-breaker. 2014 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Sport section) 25 Some rated him the greatest heavy of all, a brooding, malevolent monster, one-time bone-breaker for the Mob. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598
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