Home › Words › S › spadebonespadebonespadebone means shoulder blade.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, spadebone ranks #454 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom spade + bone?nounshoulder bladee.g.“a spadebone of a shoulder of mutton” — 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bladebone 77% match — The scapula. vs spadebone →spatulamancy 66% match — divination using the shoulder blade of an animal vs spadebone →omoplate 66% match — The scapula. vs spadebone →scapula 65% match — Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder. vs spadebone →scap 63% match — The scapula. vs spadebone →scapulimancy 63% match — divination using shoulder bones vs spadebone →espauliere 60% match — A defence for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, especially as used in the fifteenth century: a pauldron. vs spadebone →collarbone 60% match — The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone. vs spadebone →