flat bone

1. 1.

   part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone

   Broadercut of beef

   Part ofsirloin

Questions about flat bone

What does flat bone mean?

flat bone means "part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone".

Is flat bone a common word?

flat bone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.