Definition of Wishbone

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Definition of Wishbone
	Wishbone The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum. Related Definitions: Also, And, Bone, Breastbone, Called, Forked, Front, Furculum, In, Merrythought, Of, See, The, Wishing

Wishbone Quotations

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker

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