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haunch
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] (zoology) the loin and leg of a quadruped
Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)And he would sleep , sleep , and never think_of roads and horses ' sore haunches , of colonial wars . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The clapping they made on the concrete interrupted him in the ecstatic pleasure he knew , so that he quickly released his hold on the goat and pretended to be examining its haunches for ticks . Related terms |
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