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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
bone
/bəʉn/
noun1 of 2
hard pieces of a body that form the frame of an animal
- “After the bone has set, the cast will be removed.”Tatoeba
- “He says he has a bone to pick with you.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To put whalebone into.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)