[f. prec.] trans. To connect or join after the manner of vertebræ.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
1894. Blackmore, Perlycross, 129. As like each other as three peas vertebrated in one pod.
1910. Q. Rev., Jan., 69. They [sc. satires] were written in rough dialect and vertebrated with peasant phrases and peasant wit.
