What does ridgebone mean?
Ridgebone means (anatomy, rare, also figuratively) The backbone or spine..
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/ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/ · noun
(anatomy, rare, also figuratively) The backbone or spine..
Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.
[T]he corrupt blood […] lying cluttered about the ridge-bone.
And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below. "That ridgebone is the river, I swear. Rising sun hits it dead the same way, only earlier, over the plateau.
[…]; a Drynnian ridgebone was made for combat, hunting, and tunneling rock. It was also a very good shield and with it, he parried the blow meant for his head.
“Voila, my little angry one,” Markus spoke, looking at the foreign piece of junk that had been yanked free without any further struggle, straight out of the ridgebone of his back.
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Ridgebone means (anatomy, rare, also figuratively) The backbone or spine..
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Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.
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