The short portion (A) which is left on the tenon is called the haunch, and the cavity it engages is termed the haunching. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
The haunch was a picture for painters to study. From Wordnik.com. [A Poetical Cook-Book] Reference
Describe the regions of the haunch, thigh and leg. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
We had also on a side-table the haunch of a bear, which. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
A haunch of mutton is carved the same as a haunch of venison. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
For mutton roasts, choose the shoulder, the saddle, or the loin or haunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
"Yes, you could do without the haunch, you know, and score off the butcher.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917] Reference
The external angle is rugged and is generally termed the angle of the haunch. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Fig. 187 (right-hand sketch) shows the haunch, tenon, and groove G at the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
The old man asked: "But where did you strike it, on the right or on the left haunch?". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
The haunch gives the tenon great lateral strength and saves cutting so large a mortise hole. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
TWIN TENONS with haunch, as used when the timber is of great thickness, are shown in Fig. 168. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
"Of course," answered one of the thieves, "my companion struck it with a switch on the haunch.". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
He cannot get it on, do what he will; and yet he tugs away, thinking it a very fine haunch indeed. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Proceed, after some time of this, to rub and knead the haunch, thigh, and leg with the same hot oil. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
I haunch-hunkered low in my corner, thumb amouth, visualizing the paper in her leaflessNew Yorkgrip. From Wordnik.com. [A Paper that Changes Things] Reference
Hasselt (has'elt), a town in Belgium. haunch (hanch), the hip, part of body between the ribs and thigh. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
He had a haunch of elk-meat on his back, one end resting on his head, with a cushion of green fern-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Goat and fish are to be had, sometimes partridges, hares, and rabbits, occasionally a haunch of wild boar. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Here, shortly, Kenkenes was served by a slave, with a haunch of gazelle-meat, lettuce, white bread and wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Fig. 131 shows the type of tenon and haunch used when the stile or upright rail is grooved to receive a panel. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
Just as she reached this hole the dog threw himself upon her and caught her in the haunch, but was unable to hold her. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The upper ends of the thighbones are almost globes, which are received into the deep cup-like cavities of the haunch-bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
At this proposal, Pao-yü actually asked lady Feng to let them have a haunch, and he bade a matron carry it into the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I was pressed much to stay there to-day to dine with Meynell upon a haunch of venison, but I had solemnly engaged myself to Lady. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Read it for the description of Ryan as "an immense man whose thick foothills of neck and haunch swell into a spectacular butte.". From Wordnik.com. [Jets Coach Rex Ryan is livin' large] Reference
In this and similar cases the haunch is made the same width and the same depth as the groove; the groove therefore acts as the haunching. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
This is formed by the leg and part of the loin, cut so as to resemble a haunch of venison, and is to be helped at table in the same manner. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
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