Definition of "wrist-bone" [wrist-bone]

• Any bone of the wrist or carpus; a carpal bone. See carpus, wrist, and cuts under hand, pisiform, and scapholunar. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If effeminacy were completely a function of nature, wouldn't all gay men need a wrist-bone implant?"
• "Here, for instance, is a Porpoise: here is its strong backbone, with the cavity running through it, which contains the spinal cord; here are the ribs, here the shoulder blade; here is the little short upper-arm bone, here are the two forearm bones, the wrist-bone, and the finger-bones."
• "Never mind the whole point of the evolutionists, which is that it is a frigging *wrist-bone* modified to take on a finger-like function."