Chavel-bone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chavel-bone is a noun meaning (anatomy, archaic or obsolete) Jawbone.
Meaning
(anatomy, archaic or obsolete) Jawbone.
Example Sentences
"With this chavel-bone I shall slay thee!"
Cain kills Abel with a 'chavel-bone' (jaw bone), as according to apocryphal legend, and then hides his body under a pile of grass or hay.
It is the cry of Electra […] of Antigone for the father, for the brother struck down by the chavel-bone of Cain, death's storm-trooper, the man of ten-thousand names and ten-thousand faces […]
Word Forms
- chavel-bones
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