Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the giant fulmar petrel, Ossifraga gigantea.
- noun A book-name of the osprey, fish-hawk, or ossifrage, Pandion haliaëtus.
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Examples
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Tim never struck me as a bone-breaker before, is what I'm saying.
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It was a regular bone-breaker, a liver-shaker, but I was as proud of it as a boy with a new pony.
Curation Myths: Some Assembly Required BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He was a bone-breaker by trade, which meant prosperous times for him.
Petty Pewter Gods Cook, Glen 1995
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The Starduster's associates were as shadowy as he, but one of the few names known was John Li Piao, reputed number-two man and chief bone-breaker.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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The guard who had always carried out this punishment was still in the prison service and was nicknamed "the bone-breaker."
Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951
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The bones he cracks [hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., "bone-breaker"] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Kaaialii was less muscular than his rival, but he had superior cunning, and thus it happened that in the fierce contest which followed he tripped up the "bone-breaker," seized his hair as he fell, placed his knees against his back, and broke his spine.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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With fury the baffled bone-breaker grips with the uncrippled hand; but now two stout young arms, tense with rage, soon twist and break the one unaided limb.
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But there is another who claims our daughter, who is the stout bone-breaker, the scarred Mailou.
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He chuckled as he thought of the outcome, for the bone-breaker had never been beaten.
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