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aitch⋅bone

  [eych-bohn]
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–noun
1. the rump bone, as of beef.
2. the cut of beef that includes this bone.
Also, edgebone.

Origin:
1480–90; earlier hach-boon (with spurious h-); (h)ach var. by misdivision as an (h)ach(e) of a nache rump < MF < VL *natica, fem. of *naticus of the rump, equiv. to L nati(s) rump, nates + -cus adj. suffix
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aitch·bone   (āch'bōn')   
n.  

  1. The rump bone, especially of cattle.

  2. The cut of beef containing the rump bone.


[Alteration (influenced by aitch) of Middle English hach-boon, from an hach-boon, an aitchbone, alteration of a nachebon : nache, buttock (from Old French, from Late Latin naticās, accusative pl. of natica, buttock, from Latin natis) + bon, bone (from Old English bān).]
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