haunch
noun
the hip.
haunched
-
a word derived from
haunch.
Example Sentences
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His blue, pin-striped suit hung loosely from his thin, haunched shoulders as he shuffled along the magnificently carpeted Parliament halls.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the top rails, a haunched tenon is used.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a big gray wolf, standing with back haunched and head down, watching and scenting something beyond.
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf
Between the two is a marble-topped console, with haunched gilt legs ending in sphinx claws.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw
It was a big, grey wolf, standing with back haunched and head down, watching and winding something beyond there, out of sight.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
