Femur or tibia

Usage examples of legbone.

She put the hammerstone aside and examined a sturdy piece of legbone from a grazing animal for signs of splintering from the last time she used it.

It was the long legbone of a giant deer, aged and dry, with teeth marks clearly imprinted where it had been split to get at the marrow.

The flute, made from the hollow legbone of a large bird, had no finger holes.

Jondalar filled the bowl with water and inspected the legbones he had found in her midden.

The shelves themselves were constructed of steel I-beams and angle iron, riveted together to make a web of shelving strong enough to support thousands of tons: vast piles of tree-trunk-thick legbones, skulls the size of cars, massive slabs of stone matrix with bones still imbedded, awaiting the preparator's chisel.