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What is a wishbone?

What is a wishbone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
  2. (nautical) A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.
  3. (nautical) Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone.
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The V-shaped wishbone is important because it is typical of birds and what may be their immediate dinosaur ancestors.
The double wishbone suspension and coil-over shocks are mounted to large aluminum castings.
Lift up the neck skin to expose the wishbone and cut this away from the flesh, using a razor-sharp knife.
The carbon fibre unstayed masts have aluminium wishbone booms which when set are angled down, needing no kicking strap.
Well, it is actually a wishbone, the furcula is the wishbone and it is made up of the clavicles fused together in the middle.
Nothing too dramatic, just a potentially life-threatening trip over my own walking pole, which snaps like a wishbone.

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