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breastbone [brest-bohn] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun the sternum. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of breastbone before 1000; Middle English brust-bon, Old English brēostbān. See breast, bone Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for breastbone Historical Examples of breastbone
So identified he was with Judas that he felt at times as if his breastbone was bursting.
James Anthony Froude
I’ve ‘eard o’ men dying when you ‘it ’em fair on the breastbone.
Rudyard Kipling
He hit Ling on the lower end of the breastbone, where his belly would be softest.
Manly Wade Wellman
The brisket is the part formed by the breastbone, and is the lower part of the chest.
Alice M. Hayes
He drove it upward just below the breastbone, striking the heart.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
Robert Shea
British Dictionary definitions for breastbone breastbone noun the nontechnical name for sternum Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for breastbone n.
“sternum,” Old English breostban; see breast (n.) + bone (n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper breastbone in Medicine breastbone [brĕst′bōn′] n. sternum The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. breastbone in Science breastbone [brĕst′bōn′] See sternum. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
