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aitchbone

aitch·bone

uncommon

noun

1.

a cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone

Origin

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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