Rickle O' Banes Meaning

(idiomatic, chiefly Scotland) An emaciated person or animal.

Example: 1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, Hamilton, Adams and Co. (1876), page 46:
  To behold him, mounted on his old shelty, was truly a laughable scene, the animal being always so lean — a perfect "rickle o' banes," […]