But as to what Tom could 'a dun with the carpus, I'm allus heer'd that you may dew anythink with any-think, if you on'y send it carriage-paid to Lunnon,' I left the house in anger and disgust.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton
It is a cheironectes; one of a group in which the bones of the carpus form arms that support the pectoral fins, and enable these fishes to walk along the moist ground, almost like quadrupeds.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
The carpus also of the Orang, like that of most lower apes, contains nine bones, while in the Gorilla, as in Man and the Chimpanzee, there are only eight."
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell