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WHIRLBONE

Definitions: WHIRLBONE

WHIRLBONE

Noun

1. The patella, or kneepan.

2. The huckle bone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Whirlbone \Whirl"bone`\, noun. (Anat.) (a) The huckle bone. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: WHIRLBONE

English words defined with "WHIRLBONE": Hurlbone. (references)

Modern Translations: WHIRLBONE

Language		Translations for "WHIRLBONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		shliggan ny gliooney (knee-bone, patella). (various references)

Pig Latin		irlbonewhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: WHIRLBONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-n-o-r-w"
	-2 letters: blowier, bowline, brownie.
	-3 letters: behowl, berlin, blower, boiler, bonier, bowler, heroin, holier, howler, neroli, nobler, reboil, whiner.
	-4 letters: below, birle, blown, boner, borne, bowel, bower, brine, broil, brown, elbow, eloin, enrol, helio, heron, honer, irone, liber, liner, loner, lower, nerol, noble, obeli, oiler, olein, oriel, owner, reoil, rewin, rewon, rhino, robin, roble, rowel.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-h-i-l-n-o-r-w"
	+2 letters: hereinbelow.
	+5 letters: wheelbarrowing.
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Alternative Orthography: WHIRLBONE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 48 49 52 4C 42 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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