short bone

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Noun1.short bone - a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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My daughter played safe and went for sirloin although there were also spider, hanger and flat iron steaks, starting from PS11, 30-day extra mature cuts and an eye-watering 32oz short bone tomahawk steak at PS38 that you can share.
If you're feeling ravenous or just like a challenge, the mammoth PS120 Rushton Grill is 2 x 16oz T Bone steaks, short bone rib beef, 2 x veal cutlets, 2 x chicken breasts, 4 x Cumberland sausages, a 10oz Gammon steak, served with hand cut chips, beer-basted onion rings, roasted tomatoes, honey-roasted carrots, bearnaise and pepper sauces, with house gravy.
Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, had fleshy wings supported by a short bone called the pteroid bone and by a long finger bone.
The muscles originate at the shoulder and insert on the radius (short bone in the forearm).
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