canon bone
English
Etymology
French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).
Noun
canon bone (plural canon bones)
- (anatomy) The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for canon bone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)