| 单词 | haunch-joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmashaunch-joint C1. attributive and in other combinations, as †haunch-evil, haunch-hoop, haunch-joint; (from sense 3), as haunch-stone. Also haunch-bone n. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 206 Hu feole þe grimme wrestlere of helle braid upon his hupe & weorp wið þe hanche turn into galnesse. 1562 Turner A ij b Baths, Names of Siknesses The sciatica or hanchevel. 1824 R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. (1825) II. 59 There were the breast-knots, two hainch-knots, (at which there were also buttons for looping up the gown behind). 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 24 Jan. (1939) 83 A venerable lady who always wore a haunch-hoop. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 267 Henry..swung the ponderous implement far behind his right haunch joint. 1883 Surv. W. Palestine III. 407 With narrow key-stone and broad haunch-stones. < as lemmas |
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