What is "rawbone"

Usage examples of "rawbone".

He mounted Idjit, the big, rawboned hinny that had been the only riding animal they could find in Evanston, and tugged on the leadline to the pack mule.

Even bareheaded, the rawboned ex-fighter and Nielsen protege seemed to wear his black hat.

He was rawboned, large and rangy, a man of endurance and strength, a UDT man with pararescue and other paramilitary experience.

Jan danced with Mama, Matzerath danced with the big, rawboned Hedwig, whose inscrutable bovine gaze tended to make people think she was pregnant.

By contrast to the usual rawboned tiding horses and rough draft animals used for haulage, these horses seemed almost magical-and from the awed comment they were occasioning among the spectators, might as well have come from Fairyland as from Phillip Wylie's plantation in Edenton.

Compared to the effortless physical perfection of the Empyreans he'd seen, he felt like a scarecrow, his uniform hanging on his rawboned frame.

He was rawboned, shy, with cropped blond hair and a face and manner from the midwest farm belt.

There were big, rawboned men in the Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and women in fresh-washed ginghams and sunbonnets.

He was tall and rawboned, a couple of years older than Mingolla, with lank black hair and pimply olive skin and features so sharp that they appeared to have been hatcheted into shape.

There was a big, rawboned red-coated hound dog sitting in the middle of the drivewav.

President Heber Lanks was a very tall, rawboned man who'd gained weight in middle age and now was losing it.

Longarm was still on the comfortable side of forty, but the raw sun and cutting winds he'd ridden through coming west as a boy from West-by-Virginia had cured his rawboned features as saddle-leather brown as an Indian's.

I disliked the man,-- a tall, rawboned, dour old salt, -- but I watched with interest as he prepared his bait.

But he was all tight-knit, compact, rock-hard muscle, which is usually tougher to ride than a big, rawboned animal, and, being a stallion, he packed on extra heft.

The Senior of Stonefort Keep was a tall rawboned woman in her early fifties, still ropily muscular.