† channel-bone Obs.
= cannel-bone 2, the collar-bone, clavicle.
| 1577 Holinshed Chron. III. 805/1 Doublets of crimsin velvet, voided low on the backe, and before to the chanell bone. 1591 Soliman & Pers. 1, I have broken..my channel-bone. c 1611 Chapman Iliad xvii. 266. 1621 Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Lev. i. (1639) 6 The Cane (or chanell bone) of the shoulder. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Deltoides..proceeds from the Clavicula or Channel-Bone. |