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crossbones
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crossbones is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from May 30 to August 2, 2014. The series is a fictionalization of the life of the pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach , who is still alive in 1729. The show was created by Neil Cross ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossbones \Cross"bones`\ (kr[o^]s"b[=o]nz`), n. pl. A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious ...
Usage examples of crossbones.
She was making a sandwich which consisted of two pieces of bread, a pile of alfalfa spouts and a half a bottle of hot sauce marked with a skull and crossbones.
It's a name he took from the black an' white Jolly Roger flag with the skull an' crossbones, the one pirates flew on their ships in the Caribbean.
Yet he doesn't like it when Mama quotes Mark Twain, who has recently written that Old Glory should be changed to a pirate flag, with black stripes and each star a skull and crossbones.
It was after a night like this that I shocked the community with a queer conceit about the burial of the rich and celebrated Squire Brewster, a maker of local history who was interred in 1711, and whose slate headstone, bearing a graven skull and crossbones, was slowly crumbling to powder.
He could feel the needle of a drug-drip, intravenously feeding him the contents of an upended bottle labeled with a skull and crossbones.
Off to the side were two Anansi-shaped craft emblazoned with skull and crossbones.
The chunky silver with the skull and crossbones, the ruby signet and the gold sovereign.
Was it time to do something with the spike so it would be safer than it was in his pack back at the Skull and Crossbones?
Not quite stores -they had markings on them, and lettering in French, with the skull and crossbones prominent on the cylinders where they showed through the slats.
He took out a brimmed cap with the Nazi eagle on the crown and the SS skull and crossbones on the band, and tossed it on the opposite seat.