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haunch

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun haunch has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

haunchn. [F. hanche, of German origin; cf. OD. hancke, hencke, and also OHG. ancha; prob. not akin to E. ankle.].
  •  The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.  [1913 Webster]
Haunch bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate. -- Haunches of an arch (Arch.), the parts on each side of the crown of an arch. (See Crown, n., 11.) Each haunch may be considered as from one half to two thirds of the half arch.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

haunch, n.
1 the fleshy part of the buttock with the thigh, esp. in animals.
2 the leg and loin of a deer etc. as food.
3 the side of an arch between the crown and the pier.

Etymology
ME f. OF hanche, of Gmc orig.: cf. LG hanke hind leg of a horse

THESAURUS

haunch

bank, beam, border, broadside, cheek, chop, coast, flank, hand, handedness, hip, jowl, laterality, many-sidedness, multilaterality, planking, profile, quarter, shore, side, siding, temple, unilaterality

ROGET THESAURUS

haunch

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.

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