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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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CORBIN BANE, n. comb. The lower end of the breast-bone of a deer. Also called raven bone, because thrown to the ravens which followed the hunters.s.Sc. 1835–40 J. M. Wilson (ed.) Tales of the Border (1857–59) VIII. 34:
I have killed a dun deer to-day, whose umbles will tell the seer a sad tale o' our house, and whose corbin bane will bring mony a Harden corbie to Gilmanscleugh.

[Mid.Eng. corbin-bone, as above (N.E.D.). O.Fr. has os corbin, the lower part of the hip-bone (Godefroy), from corbin, a raven, but the reason for the changed meaning is not clear.]

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