Each of the two bones that extend from the breast-bone to the shoulder-blade, forming part of the pectoral arch; the clavicle.
15[?]. Sc. Poems 16th C., II. 169. Hely fell … And brake his necke and coller bane.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 265. The patell or choler bones.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 474, ¶ 3. None should be admitted into this green conversation-piece, except he had broke his collar-bone thrice.
1794–6. E. Darwin, Zoon. (1801), I. 199. All the quadrupeds that have collar-bones, (claviculæ) use their fore-limbs in some measure as we use our hands.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lviii. (1862), V. 177. I broke my collar-bone … by a fall from a young horse.
