A horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets.
1 The whalebone Divinity in the Home Town passed out of his Life.
2 The stretchers were of cane, and the ribs of cane or whalebone .
3 This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone .
4 So I made her a tail of whalebone and India-rubber and yarn.
5 She handed Little a good-sized affair of lace and silk and whalebone .
6 The irksomeness was added to by a horrible harness largely of whalebone .
7 The thought of De Malfort's ridicule cut her like a whalebone whip.
8 Many girls chose abortion, a hazardous internal stabbing with a whalebone speculum.
9 How could Patty come here, and dressed in silk and whalebone too?
10 The quality of the whalebone also differs in the different species.
11 Those with whalebone have rudimentary teeth in both jaws in the fœtal state.
12 Name's Mervin; all whipcord and whalebone ; springy as a bent bow.
13 In like manner the devil fish feeds, except that it has no whalebone .
14 The longer Richard contemplated Inspector Val the more he felt his whalebone sort.
15 In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.
16 No whalebone on Miss Tomson but perhaps a lot on Matilda.
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