hook-bone

“The hook-bone gets a touch, and when well covered, is right ....”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843

“If the shoulder-point is covered, and feels soft like the point of the hook-bone, it is good, and indicates a well filled neck-vein, which runs from that point to the side of the head.”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843

“A wide-hooked animal, especially a cow after calving, always has a vacancy between the hook-bone and the tail, and a want of the most valuable part of the carcass.”

Cattle and Cattle-breeders

“The hook-bone and the buttock are cut up for steaks, beefsteak pie, or minced collops, and both these, together with the sirloin, bring the highest price.”

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure