Definitions for loin

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Spelling: [loin]
IPA: /lɔɪn/

Loin is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in loin (ilno).

Definitions for loin

noun

  1. Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
  2. a cut of meat from this region of an animal, especially a portion including the vertebrae of such parts.
  3. loins. the parts of the body between the hips and the lower ribs, especially regarded as the seat of physical strength and generative power. the genital and pubic area; genitalia.

Idioms

  1. gird (up) one's loins, to prepare oneself for something requiring readiness, strength, or endurance:

Origin of loin

1275-1325; Middle English loyne Middle French lo(i)gne, perhaps Vulgar Latin *lumbea, noun use of feminine of *lumbeus of the loins, equivalent to Latin lumb(us) loin + -eus Examples for loin

loin straps should be used with a ladys trap only when a servant drives.

The rib is the cut between the loin and chuck, and contains the best roasts.

Sauce for a loin of veal was made of all kinds of sweet herbs, with the yolks of two or three hard eggs minced very fine.

Pork steaks or chops should be taken from the neck, or the loin.

The ribs and the loin cut in one piece are shown in Fig. 18.

Take care also to cut out the pipe that runs along the chine of a loin of veal, the same as in beef, to hinder it from tainting.

Then put in some bits of loin of pork cut into dice and some bits of lean ham.

A loin of pork with the fat and kidney taken out and boned, and a forehand of pork boned, are very nice dressed in the same way.

Rub the loin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.

The middle of the loin is the next best, and the rump the next.

Word Value for loin
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4

Words with friends

6

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