Definitions for haunch

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haunch haunch

Spelling: [hawnch, hahnch]

IPA: /hɔntʃ, hɑntʃ/

Haunch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in haunch (achhnu).

Definitions for haunch

noun

1. the hip.
2. the fleshy part of the body about the hip.
3. a hindquarter of an animal.
4. the leg and loin of an animal, used for food.
5. Architecture. either side of an arch, extending from the vertex or crown to the impost. the part of a beam projecting below a floor or roof slab.

Origin of haunch

1150-1200; Middle English haunche Old French hanche Germanic; compare Middle Dutch hanke haunch, hip, German Hanke haunch

Examples for haunch

With a bound it fastened teeth and claws in the haunch of venison.

He knew that one of them had plunged a knife in the animal's haunch.

And here comes the Manager to be congratulated upon the haunch.

It seized the haunch of venison, and attempted to make off with it.

To judge of its sweetness, run a very sharp narrow knife into the shoulder or haunch, and the meat will be known by the scent.

Can you eat an unskinned hare, or dine on the haunch of a bounding stag?

A haunch of mutton should be dressed like venison, only in proportion as it may be less, it must not roast quite so long.

The doctor shook his head mournfully, remembering the haunch.

This chair by British designer Thomas Heatherwick is now on view in his show at haunch of Venison gallery in New York.

There was a fire in front of the lodge, and the haunch of a deer was cooking on the fire.