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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
raw-boned

"having little flesh on the bones, gaunt," from raw (adj.) + bone (n.).

Usage examples of "raw-boned".

Sir Wildred was a large man and he bestrode a raw-boned roan with the speed of a deer and the heart of a lion.

They made a strange couple, the tall raw-boned young woman incongruously bedizened with costume jewellery, and the little sharp-eyed man.

With ten of his men behind him, Lord Beryn strode in, a tall man, raw-boned and grizzled, with sweeping grey moustaches and narrow dark eyes that darted this way and that.

Wildred was a large man and he bestrode a raw-boned roan with the speed of a deer and the heart of a lion.

It was the novice, Berit, a rangy, raw-boned young man whose face was split with a broad grin.

The other was big, raw-boned, long-jawed, with a veined nose and glassy eyes.

Tamaiti I knew already: Terutak' I saw for the first time--a tall, lank, raw-boned, serious North-Sea fisherman turned brown.