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Collarbone   /kˈɑlərbˌoʊn/   Listen
Collarbone

noun
1.
Bone linking the scapula and sternum.  Synonym: clavicle.






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"Collarbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... least, not there and then. He was carried to the nearest hospital, and lay for some weeks between life and death. His case, they said, was difficult and dangerous. The knife had gone in just below the collarbone, and pierced down into the lungs. He was not allowed to speak or turn—scarcely to breathe with freedom. He might not even lift his head to drink. I sat by him day and night all through that sorrowful time. I gave up my situation ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens

... concocted a piece of deviltry which was as dangerous as it was foolish. The result was that an explosion took place, and the author of the gun-powder plot had all the skin on both hands blistered. Burnett, in escaping, fell and broke his collarbone and two ribs. The house in which the affair took place caught fire, and was badly damaged. And Tweedwell was arrested on the strongest kind of circumstantial evidence, and had to answer for the whole. Naturally, in the investigation that followed, the ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner



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