spell-bone

1) A spelling of speel-bone, that the small bone of the arm or leg.

1307 ‘they assaulted and beat her and broke the spilebon of her arm’, Wakefield

1690 his left leg was sore hurt and his surgeons informe him that the end of the spell bone is broke, Idle.

places Wakefield Idle
dates 1307 1690

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