breastbone

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BREAST'BONE, noun [breast and bone.] The bone of the breast; the sternum. BREAST'-C'ASKET, noun [breast and casket.] One of the largest and longest of the caskets or strings on the middle of the yard of a ship.
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