knucklebone

(nŭk′əl-bōn′)

A knobbed bone, as of a knuckle or joint.

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DNA and radiocarbon testing of collagen from the knucklebone show that the remains likely belonged to a Middle Eastern man who lived in the first century A.

John the Baptist's Bones Found?

Thus in the Greek tradition the throws in the game of knucklebones came to have allusive and learned labels.

Literate games: Roman urban society and the game of 'alea.'

He discovered a knucklebone beneath an upholstered chair, where Grace must have stored it.

Grace. (Story)

knucklebone, eyelash, and tooth to the wind and rain.

Psalm After the Fall from Remission

Poor Mrs Schiff is given a fist--no fingers--like an over-cooked knucklebone.

A lonely old volcano: Wyndham Lewis's masterful portraits suggest that his claim to despise humanity was true

By eschewing interior games like carrom, cards or knucklebones, Sen fails to account for the role of women in the history of sports and games especially during the ancient and medieval periods.

Sen, Ronojoy: "Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India."

The game, also knows as knucklebones, was a playground sensation.

IN CRAZE OF OLD; The playground must-haves and d has-beens from the last 80 years

These stories alone would make this album worth having, and include rhymes and sayings to help the fishermen in their work, tales of storm and shipwreck expressed in the colourful language associated with Sam--as when he had been on leave but had to go back to sea, and said you were 'on the knucklebones of your arse'.

Sam Larner, Cruising Round Yarmouth: The 1958-1960 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger Recordings

The author has organized the main body of her text alphabetically by topical entry, covering a wide variety of sports and activities from around the world, including Aussie rule football, bull running, conkers, dwile flonking, extreme ironing, foxhunting, glima, hurling, jacks and knucklebones, korfball, lawnmower racing, Mongolian wrestling, Nordic walking, orienteering and regaining, pancake races, quidditch, rounderAEs, shin kicking, trampolining, underwater hockey, volcano boarding, wife carrying, yoga, zorbing, and many others.

Weird Sports and Wacky Games Around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing

There is a detectable provision for care and play in small finds--a dolls eye, two knucklebones, a marble, a harmonica and glass salad oil bottles, condiment/pickle jars and cordial indicate small privileges.

Remembering the significant: St John's Kapunda, South Australia

The attendant goes on to relate how religiosity gave way to obsession: the young man would cast knucklebones to determine the goddess's favor and scrawl love-drunk graffiti over every wall and tree of the shrine, praising the goddess as "Aphrodite the Beautiful," and Praxiteles as another Zeus, until he reached a fever pitch of lust:

Framing a view of the unviewable: architecture, Aphrodite, and erotic looking in the Lucianic Erotes