Definition of Numbles

1. Noun. (archaic) The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Numbles

1. animal entrails [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbles

numberplate
numberplates
numbers
numbers game
numbers games
numbers juggling
numbers needed to harm
numbers pool
numbers racket
numberwork
numbest
numbfish
numbfishes
numbing
numbingly
numbles (current term)
numbly
numbness
numbnesses
numbnuts
numbre
numbs
numbskull
numbskulled
numbskulls
numby
numchuck
numchucks
numdah
numdah rug

Literary usage of Numbles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The numbles of a deer comprised various parts of the inwards of the animal from the ... 1340, where the cutting out the numbles is elaborately but not very ..."

2. The Master of Game by Edward, Gaston (1909)
"Part, and sometimes the whole of the numbles were considered the right of the huntsman ; sometimes the huntsman only got the kidneys, and the rest was put ..."

3. Sir Tristrem by Thomas, George Powell McNeill (1886)
"One crooke of the numbles lyeth ever more Vnder the throte-bole of the beast ... And the bravest part of the numbles then ; That is to say, the forcers, ..."

4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"... Wright's fn cerf, the numbles of a stag. ... See Littré and Scheler; also Ducange. numbles also appears as ..."

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