The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BONE
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More clues leading to the result BONE
- Anvil maybe, blacksmith’s first one
- Cannon maybe? Hence e.g. fired inside
- Brownies regularly dropped anvil perhaps
- & 32 Screw Eric for completely avoiding work!
- Maybe rib second-class individual
- Hard thing to get live screening working
- With booze completely banned, Napoleon arrests doctor
- British individual hip for example
- Individual in command was first virtually opposing action?
- Vitamin in dog food?
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What does BONE mean?
BONE noun- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- The framework of anything.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- A dollar.
- The wishbone formation.
- An erect penis; a boner.
- (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- To apprehend, steal.
- To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
- The common European bittern.