nache ? Obs.
(neɪtʃ)
Also 7 nach, natch.
[a. OF. nache:—pop. L. *natica, f. natis buttock. Cf. nage.]
The point of the rump in an ox or cow; the rump. Also nache-bone = natchbone.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §57 If thou shalte bye fatte oxen.. se that they be soft..vpon the hucbone, and the nache by the tayle. 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 89 Soft huckell bones, and a bigge nach [1668 natch], round and knotty. 1798 A. Young Ann. Agric. XXX. 198 (Britten), [The catch or point of the rump is called] The nache in some writers; also the tail points by others. 1799 View Agric. Lincoln 299 Breadth of nache, eight inches below the tail setting on, 1 ft. 6 in. 1828 Craven Gloss., Nache-bone, rump bone. |