Rump /(?)/
Rump
n.
- The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
- Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
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The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant. Fig.:
The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.