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HAUNCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The loin and leg of a quadruped
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("haunch" is a kind of...):
croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump (the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks)
Holonyms ("haunch" is a part of...):
quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("haunch" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("haunch" is a part of...):
body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)
Context examples:
'Tis James! was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and, on catching the young men's eyes, the horse was immediately checked with a violence which almost threw him on his haunches, and the servant having now scampered up, the gentlemen jumped out, and the equipage was delivered to his care.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement—the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Before him, sitting silently on their haunches, were five live things, the like of which he had never seen before.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Tete Dieu!” he growled, “were this France, or even Guienne, we should have a fresh haunch for our none-meat. Law or no law, I have a mind to loose a bolt at her.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The rusted gates between the crumbling heraldic pillars were folded back, and my uncle flicked the mares impatiently as we flew up the weed-grown avenue, until he pulled them on their haunches before the time-blotched steps.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One by one the wolves joined her, till the whole pack, on haunches, with noses pointed skyward, was howling its hunger cry.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He had scarce done so before Sir Nigel rode out from the holders' enclosure, and galloping at full speed down the lists, drew his charger up before the prince's stand with a jerk which threw it back upon its haunches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But White Fang sat on his haunches and ki-yi'd and ki-yi'd, a forlorn and pitiable little figure in the midst of the man-animals.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He sat up on his haunches and ki-yi'd.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
