pulling bone
US regional (southern and south Midland ) and English regional
noun
= wish-bone Compare pully-bone.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in John R. Bartlett (1805–1886), ethnologist and historian.
- postlike
- postliminary
- postliminium
- postliminous
- postliminy
- post line
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- postliterate
- postlude
- post-main sequence
- postman
- postman's knock
- post-marital
- postmark
- postmaster
- postmaster general
- postmastership
- post-materialism
- post-materialist
- post-materialistic
- postmature
- postmaturely
- postmaturity
- postmeatal
- postmedial