Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bone (with some meat on it) used for making soup-stock: usually the shank of beef.

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Examples

  • Occasionally he graced his table with a piece of round-steak, or with a soup-bone.

    Chapter 23 2010

  • I will take Mister, ahem, Dog to the kitchen for a soup-bone repast, the butler announced.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I will take Mister, ahem, Dog to the kitchen for a soup-bone repast, the butler announced.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I will take Mister, ahem, Dog to the kitchen for a soup-bone repast, the butler announced.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • -- One soup-bone, one quart of turtle beans, one large spoonful of powdered cloves, salt and pepper.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • Soak the beans over night, put them on with the soup-bone in nearly six quarts of water, and cook five or six hours.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • At length a kind-hearted butcher, judging of the trouble from her face, said: "Look here, old woman, you look like an honest woman; take this soup-bone, and pay me when you get some money"; then another said, "Take this," and others piled on pieces of meat till the basket was full.

    Harriet, the Moses of Her People

  • ` ` Look here: suppose you give a cook a soup-bone and some vegetables, and pay her to make you a soup: has she got a right to take and sell it?

    Alice Adams 1921

  • She was a homely woman at any time, and in her bloomers she looked like a soup-bone.

    Where there's a Will 1912

  • Occasionally he graced his table with a piece of round-steak, or with a soup-bone.

    Chapter 23 1908

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