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Definition of Aitch
1. n. The letter h or H.
Definition of Aitch
1. Noun. (Latn-def en name H h) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aitch
1. the letter H [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aitch
Literary usage of Aitch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Edge or aitch Bone of Beef. Cut off and lay by a thick slice from the entire
surface, as marked a, b, then help. There are two kinds of fat attached to this ..."
2. The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of by Thomas Farrington De Voe (1867)
"... the smallest piece on the left side is called the edye-bone (aitch, H, itch,
or adzo bone), and the other side the tail-end-rump, or "rump-piece. ..."
3. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1845)
"aitch BONE OF BEEF. Cut a slice an inch thick all through. Put this by, and serve
in slices from the remainder. Some persons, however, like outside, ..."
4. American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of Literary by William Channing Woodbridge, William Russell, William Andrus Alcott (1834)
"After a little child can spell ba, da, fa, Sic., ask him to spell ha, and is it
possible, that he would ever think of saying, aitch-a, ha ? ..."
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