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Aitchbone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cut of beef lying above the rump bone.
  2. 2
    a cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone wordnet
  3. 3
    The rump bone itself.

Etymology

From rebracketing of "a nache-bone" to "an aitchbone". See natch, bone. Attested since the late 1400s, and initially also spelled hach- with a spurious h.

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