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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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HEUKBANE, n. Also huke- (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.), heuck- (Ags. Ib.), hewck-bon; heugh-; hook-bone; and dims. heukle-banie (Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 152), heuchle-bane (Ib. 49), corresp. to Eng. huckle-bone. The hip-bone, hough, = Eng. huck-bone (Per., Fif., m.Lth., Lnk., Rxb. 1957). Ppl.adj. hook-boned.Sc. 1703 Foulis Acct. Bk. (S.H.S.) 319:
For a heuck bone of beif . . 0. 15. 0. For a hewck bon . . . 0. 14. 0.Sc. 1736 Mrs McLintock Receipts 45:
To pot Beef. Take a Hook-bone, or two collop-pieces, cut it in Pieces, rub it with Saltpeter to make it red.Ayr. 1794 Stat. Acc.¹ XII. 84:
The handsome Carrick cattle are much easier fed, and much less expense, than the cross made hook-boned cattle of like size.Sc. 1826 M. Dods Manual ii. 7:
This receipt is equally applicable to every piece of salted beef, whether Ribs, Brisket, or H bone, (Scottice Heuckbane).Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) xix.:
Beef, mutton, and veal hanging up on cleeks, in roasting and boiling pieces — spar-rib, jigget, shoulder, and heuk-bane, in the greatest prodigality of abundance.Sc. 1835 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. 1018:
[Fife cattle] are wide between the hook-bones.s.Sc. 1838 Wilson's Tales of the Borders IV. 330:
A lass whose ideas of hussyskep were so peculiar that she thought Gilnockie and its laird were going to ruin, when she saw in the kail-pot a “heugh bane” of their own cattle.Edb. 2003:
Aye, it's called heukbane an no 'heugh' as some folk say - tryin tae be too Scottish. It's because the bone's like a hook, ken.