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Schakil(l)-bane, Schaikill-bane, Sha(c)kle-, Scheckell-bone, n. Also: shakel-; shaikell-, schaikle-, shaikkle-, schairkill-, chaikill-, shekell-, shekle-, chekkell-, checkell-; and -bean(e, -boune; schailbane. [Schakill n. Also in the mod. dial.] The wrist.(a) 1571 Reg. Privy C. XIV 93.
Thay band baythe my handis at the schakilbanes [Bann. Memor. 66, shaklebones] 1558-66 Knox II 534.
At length she revived by reason they had bound small cords about her shackle bones, her knees and great toes 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 172.
Withe ane vehement nip in the thik of [thy] hand, at the schakill bean c1615 Chron. Kings 180.
Schakill beane 1630 Justiciary Cases II 314.
The airme, the schakill [pr. scahkill] bane 1679 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 284 (21 Feb.).
And that he held him be the shakel bones when he took the cloak(b) 1608 Reg. Privy C. VIII 183.
And fra the middle fingair of his left hand to the schaikle bone thereof hes clovin his said hand 1611 Ib. IX 243.
About his shaikkle bane 1622 Crim. Trials III 509.
Schaikill-bane Ib. 516.
Thair is na deid lybellit bot … graipping of the pulses or chaikill-bane and breist 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 229.
[He] tooke her be both the shaikell bones … crying [etc.] 1630 Justiciary Cases II 313.
Be streking him … in his richt airme and schairkill bane Ib.
Schaikill bane(c) 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 272.
A deepe and bloodie wound … upoun his scheckell bone 1629 Ib. III 344.
The said George Wilsoun … threw about her right arme and brake the same at the checkell bone a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1673) 29 (Jam. s.v. Gardy).
Lacertus, the gairdy from the elbow to the shekle bone a1651 Calderwood III 68.
Chekkell bones 1653 J. Hope Diary (1919) 155.
Cuttings of trees … about the greatness of my shekell boune(d) 1599 Reg. Privy C. VI 49.
[He] patt him to tortour in ane instrument nameit the cashielawis … drawing his body, nek, armes and feit togidder … straik wadgeis betuix his schailbanes quhill the blude birsit oute