Ruel-bone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ruel-bone is a noun meaning (archaic, literary) A piece of ivory, generally from a marine mammal.
Meaning
(archaic, literary) A piece of ivory, generally from a marine mammal.
Example Sentences
White it glimmered, and the sea shimmered with star-mirrors in a silver net; cliffs of stone pale as ruel-bone in the moon-foam were gleaming wet.
RUEL-BONE Is mentioned by Chaucer, and in the following passage, as the material of a saddle. It is not, of course, to be thence supposed that ruel-bone was commonly or even actually used for that purpose,[…]
Word Forms
- ruel-bones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ridge-bone, ribauld, rubelet, ribbe, rullion, ryllet.
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