subs. phr. (old).—A bony rump: with bones like pins pricking: the reverse of BARGE-ARSE (q.v.).
1598. SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 2, 18. It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks, the PIN-BUTTOCK, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.
