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edgebone

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edge⋅bone

[ej-bohn]
–noun
aitchbone.

Origin:
by folk etym.

aitch⋅bone

[eych-bohn]
–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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