Marrowbone
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A bone containing edible marrow.
"And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise."
- 2 a bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup wordnet
- 3 The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling. humorous, in-plural
"Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs^([sic]), and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom."
Example
More examples"And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise."
Etymology
From marrow + bone.
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