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LOIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds
Synonyms:
loin; lumbus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("loin" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("loin" is a part of...):
quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)
homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("loin" is a kind of...):
cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loin"):
short loin (the portion of the loin from which porterhouse steaks are cut)
Context examples:
“He’s a fifteen-stoner from the loins upwards,” cried Dutch Sam, from his corner.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A gold-embroidered belt of knighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My dear sir, if there is one thing my mother loves better than another, it is pork—a roast loin of pork—As to who, or what Miss Hawkins is, or how long he has been acquainted with her, said Emma, nothing I suppose can be known.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He had not yet attained his full six foot of stature, but no judge of a man (and every woman, at least, is one) could look at his perfect shoulders, his narrow loins, and his proud head that sat upon his neck like an eagle upon its perch, without feeling that sober joy which all that is beautiful in Nature gives to us—a vague self-content, as though in some way we also had a hand in the making of it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We sat before a little fire, with two bricks put within the rusted grate, one on each side, to prevent its burning too many coals; until another debtor, who shared the room with Mr. Micawber, came in from the bakehouse with the loin of mutton which was our joint-stock repast.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said—It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished—but it is so little one can venture to do—small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon—Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate—Hartfield pork is not like any other pork—but still it is pork—and, my dear Emma, unless one could be sure of their making it into steaks, nicely fried, as ours are fried, without the smallest grease, and not roast it, for no stomach can bear roast pork—I think we had better send the leg—do not you think so, my dear?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet, if for an instant he lay the cross aside, or if he fail to journey to Pitt's Deep, where it is ordered that he shall take ship to outland parts, or if he take not the first ship, or if until the ship be ready he walk not every day into the sea as far as his loins, then he becomes outlaw, and I shall forthwith dash out his brains.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
