Commentary for Chullin 249:1

וקולית המוקדשין הנוגע בהן בין סתומים בין נקובים טמא

OR A THIGH-BONE OF A CONSECRATED ANIMAL,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was rendered piggul (v. Glos.) in the course of the offering, or whose meat became nothar, i.e., was left over beyond the time prescribed for eating. The Rabbis, in order to prevent such abuses arising out of the negligence of the priest, decreed that sacrificial meat which was piggul or nothar shall render the hands unclean (v. Pes. 120b) . This decree clearly applied to those parts of the sacrifice which were edible; therefore it did not apply to marrowless bones, but it did apply to a marrowbone for then the bone serves as a holder for the marrow within it.');">¹</span>

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