aitch-bone

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aitch-bone the bone of the buttock. XIX (also H-bone), orig. nache-BONE (XV), f. earlier nage (XIV) — OF. nache, nage, pl. naches :- late L. naticas, acc. pl. of naticæ, f. L. natis (usu. pl. -es) buttock.

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