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Definition of Anklebones
1. anklebone [n] - See also: anklebone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anklebones
Literary usage of Anklebones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of Central Asia: Additional Chapters on My Travels, Adventures, and by Ármin Vámbéry (1868)
"... is played in the manner of European dice \vith the four anklebones of a sheep,
and with a degree of passionate excitement of which one can form no idea. ..."
2. Keeping Healthyby Jo Ellen Moore by Jo Ellen Moore (2004)
"The anklebones connect to the shinbones. They help you stand up tall. The shinbones
connect to the knee bones. The knee bones connect to the thighbones. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"In a few lemurs, as in the frog-group, however, the anklebones themselves undergo
the process of alteration. ..."
4. A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain by Jerry L. Gaw (1999)
"... undergone successful operations for injuries to anklebones, thighbones, and
shin- bones.33 •"'William Craig, "Correspondence," Edinburgh Medical Journal ..."
5. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
"... look at the trembling in that paralytic : sin drove the sight from those eyes,
and the hearing from those ears, and the strength from those anklebones. ..."
6. Wanderings in China by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1900)
"... requirements of Chinese custom, it is only wonderful that cases of diseased
anklebones and mortification of the foot are not very much more common. ..."
7. Sculpture I, 1952-1967 by Mary C. Sturgeon (1987)
"Both anklebones are rounded projections, the left higher than the right. The right
or inside retains rough rasp marks below the ankle, since this side would ..."
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