Definition of "leg-bone" [leg-bone]

• Any bone of the hind limb of a vertebrate. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "One dissociated canid leg-bone up by the golf course, couldn't tell if it came from a coyote, fox, or dog."
• "So I sprang up and seizing the leg-bone aforesaid, made for the noise."
• "Then I took the leg-bone of a dead man and, going up to the woman, smote her on the crown of the head; and she cried one cry and fell down in a swoon."