huckle

American  

[huhk-uhl] / ˈhʌk əl /

noun

1. the hip or haunch.

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huckle British  

/ ˈhʌkəl /

noun

1. the hip or haunch

2. a projecting or humped part

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Etymology

Origin of huckle

1520–30; obsolete huck hip, haunch (< ?) + -le

Example Sentences

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

Yes, God be thanked; but I feele a shrewd ach, sure he has sprang my huckle bone.

From A King, and No King by Fletcher, John

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 Shaw, Henry W.

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 Campbell, John

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 Lewis, James Campbell