† put-bone
? The knuckle-bone or astragalus.
| 1664 E. Browne in Sir T. Browne's Wks. (1836) I. 45 Mr. Osborne sent my father a calf, whereof I observed the knee joynt, and the neat articulation of the put bone, which was here very perfect. I dissected another bull's heart. Ibid. 48 In a putbone the unfortunate casts are outward, the fortunate inward. |