huckle
Americannoun
noun
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the hip or haunch
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a projecting or humped part
Etymology
Origin of huckle
1520–30; obsolete huck hip, haunch (< ?) + -le
Example Sentences
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Just as I stuck my face up to the crack, the door flew open, knocking me on the forehead and sending me flying backward, to land on my huckle bones in the mud.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
The dominie also partook of them, remarking: "This is the whortleberry, or berry of the hart, vulgarly called the huckleberry, although huckle means a hump, which is most inappropriate."
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
The balance of the winter I hunted and trapped near home—and when spring came I hunted ginseng and later picked huckle berries meanwhile I learned to speak the Chippewa language.
From Black Beaver The Trapper by James Campbell Lewis
Tha haint got enny friends, and will live on huckle berry brush, with an ockasional chanse at Kanada thistels.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Yes, God be thanked; but I feele a shrewd ach, sure he has sprang my huckle bone.
From A King, and No King by John Fletcher
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