Obs. = CANNEL-BONE 2, the collar-bone, clavicle.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 805/1. Doublets of crimsin velvet, voided low on the backe, and before to the chanell bone.
1591. Soliman & Pers., I. B 3 c. I haue broke my channell bone.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVII. 266. The fell dart, fell through his channell bone.
1621. Ainsworth, Annot. Pentat., Lev. i. (1639), 6. The Cane (or chanell bone) of the shoulder.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Deltoides proceeds from the Clavicula or Channel-Bone.