Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hip.
- noun A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hip; the haunch.
- noun A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
- noun [R.] A small bone of the ankle; astragalus.
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- noun obsolete The
hip , thehaunch . - noun A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Politics are not my concern, but, for the moment, since it seemed that they were going to 'huckle' with the rest, I took an interest in them.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Also look for huckle berries in semi dense forest, on smakk stems that are about a half foot high.
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And, at his funeral in the tiny little town of Call, Texas, we had the best mixed berry (huckle, blue,???) cobbler anyone had ever tasted.
funeral food | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Also look for huckle berries in semi dense forest, on smakk stems that are about a half foot high.
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May 8th, 2008 3: 34 pm ET hahaha, she's still trying to win ... oh brother, our own huckle-hillbilly
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Only recently I have gotten back into the huckle and buckle lifestyle with an IH MKIII.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Sounds, Sasquatch, Stupidity, and Specters BikeSnobNYC 2008
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He tried to divert himself at huckle-bones, and lost the gold plates of his necklace one by one.
Salammbo 2003
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Of all solid-hooved animals the Indian ass alone has an astragalus or huckle-bone; for the pig, as was said above, is either solid-hooved or cloven-footed, and consequently has no well-formed huckle-bone.
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It has a huckle-bone like that of kine, but meagre and small in proportion to its bulk.
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Of the many-fingered or many-toed, no single one has been observed to have a huckle-bone, none of the others any more than man.
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