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You're most welcome!
But what is going on here?
Q1: How come COED def #2 gives the origin for this version of the word as from the Latin for heart where another dictionary gives it derived from the leather on which the slippery offering was presented to the dogs?
Q2: When did the meaning get transferred from 'bits you feed your hunting dogs' to 'the animal they chase in order to get the treat'?
Q3: Is this a prize example of three homophonic terms that mean different things and have a different (although possibly sometimes linked) etymology?
Q4: Who's hidden my incarnadine OED disk, and what blazingsaddle developed their 'timeout, reinstall' dongle, the child of nature?!
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