haunch

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When the haunch was at last cooked to the bone, only the bone was left Heavy with the feast, I lay on my back watching the gray smoke brush my stars that seemed so near.

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  1. noun The hip, buttock, and upper thigh in humans and animals.
  2. noun The loin and leg of a four-footed animal, especially as used for food: a haunch of venison.
  3. noun Architecture Either of the sides of an arch, curving down from the apex to an impost.

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  • When Stinker dropped the other haunch -- that was the piece he ripped free -- to grab at the stick with both hands, Maggot rushed in. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • Brutally grasping the boy by neck and haunch, the giant up-ended him and thrust him head-first into the green pool. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • April in the D can suck a marmot haunch, seriously. —  MVN
  • Any excuse to visit Bayonne is a good one, and here are two dandies: from April 10 to 12, the old Basque port celebrates its famous ham with haunch-related street festivities. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • She moved first one haunch, then the other, making her hips sway. —  Modestly Yours
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  1. Middle English haunche, from Old French hanche, from Frankish *hanka.

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  1. Formerly also haunce, haunse, and in architecture hanch, hance, hanse; from Middle English hanche, haunche, from Old French hanche, hance, anche, and without assibilation hanke (later apparently Friesic hancke, hencke, haunch, German hanke, haunch (of a horse)), French hanche = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian anca, haunch, Middle Latin hancha, from Old High German anchā, enchā, einkā, the leg, literally joint or bend, allied to Old High German anchila, enchila, ankle, =English ankle: see ankle.
  2. Also dial. hainch, hench; from haunch, n.
 

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