■ noun the buttock or rump bone of cattle.
↘a cut of beef lying over this.
Origin
C15, from dialect nache 'rump', from OFr., based on L. natis 'buttock(s)', + bone ; the initial n was lost by wrong division of a nache bone .
■ noun the buttock or rump bone of cattle.
↘a cut of beef lying over this.
Origin
C15, from dialect nache 'rump', from OFr., based on L. natis 'buttock(s)', + bone ; the initial n was lost by wrong division of a nache bone .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004