Noun: ruel-bone
| Singular | ruel-bone |
| Plural | ruel-bones |
Sample Sentences
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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,[…] [1850, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, page 697:]
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White it glimmered, and the sea shimmered
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with star-mirrors in a silver net;
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cliffs of stone pale as ruel-bone
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in the moon-foam were gleaming wet. [1962, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Sea-Bell:]
Nouns inflected like ruel-bone
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Middle English rewell bon, ruel bon (“walrus ivory”), from Old French roal, rohal (“walrus ivory”), ultimately from Old Norse hrosshvalr (“walrus”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
hrosshvalr'.