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The furcula of a domestic fowl
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wishbone
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The Wishbone Bus is an open source hardware computer bus intended to let the parts of an integrated circuit communicate with each other. The aim is to allow the connection of differing cores to each other inside of a chip. The Wishbone Bus is used by many ...
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n. the furcula of a domestic fowl [syn: wishing bone ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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also wish-bone , 1860, from wish (n.) + bone (n.); so called from the custom of making a wish while pulling the bone in two with another person. The wishbone breaking custom dates to the early 17c., when the bone was a merrythought .
Usage examples of wishbone.
When they saw the kid in the banquet hall they veered to his table and congratulated him again, each giving him the wishbone pinky handclasp of their growing conspiracy.
A little flare of light within the Y-wing formation had to be one of the wishbones intercepting a turbolaser blast, with fatal results.
I wished on falling stars, on wishbones, I tossed pennies into any pool of water I could find.