huckle bone

huckle bone (plural huckle bones) (obsolete)

1. The hip bone.
2. The anklebone.
   • 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 119, recto:

     Ἀστράγαλος is in Latin, talus, and it is the little ſquare huccle bone, in the ancle place of the hinder legge in all beaſtes, ſauing man, […]

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• “huckle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.