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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

HECK, n.3 The haunch, rump (of an animal); the cut of mutton across the kidneys, a saddle of mutton (Rxb. a.1838 Jam. MSS. XI. 75).Slk. 1832 Trans. Highl. Soc. 297:
It would be necessary to submit to the low shoulder and great round heck, but in all matters utility ought to rule fashion.

[The word corresponds in meaning with dial. Eng. huck, and in form with an unrounded variant, now common in m.Sc., of heuk- in Heukbane, see note s.v.]

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