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Loin

noun

A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.

Either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds. Synonym: lumbus.

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"Loin" Quotes from Famous Books

... bhl['a]ithe s['u]il 's bu deirge gruaidh; cha b' e sud ['a]bhaist Theadhaich nam beann ['e]ilde, 'g am bu lionor d['a]imheach 'n a thalla, 'g am bu tric tathaich o thuath—ni mise dhuibh i['u]l." Gu gleann-s['i]th tharladh na fir; gleann an tric guth feidh is loin; gleann nan glas charn is nan scor; gleann nan sruth ri uisg is gaoith. Thachair orra buaghar bho, is rinn dhoibh i['u]l; thug dhoibh sgeul air duthaich nan creag, air fir agus air mnaibh, air f['a]s shliabh agus charn, air neart feachd, air rian nan arm, ...

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

... fish-hook. Now it happens that a paper-wrapped bottle of chlorodyne with a piece of harmless fuse projecting can fool anybody. It fooled Bertie, and it fooled the natives. When Captain Hansen lighted the fuse and hooked the fish-hook into the tail-end of a native's loin-cloth, that native was smitten with so ardent a desire for the shore that he forgot to shed the loin-cloth. He started for'ard, the fuse sizzling and spluttering at his rear, the natives in his path taking headers over the barbed wire at every ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various

... les obstacles qu'oppose l'etat actuel du Maroc a la realisation de cette liberte; mais ces obstacles, loin de decourager, doivent stimuler les c[oe]urs genereux qui n'envisagent que la ...

— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf

... partez pour la guerre, Qu'allez-vous faire Si loin d'ici? Voyez-vous pas que la nuit est profonde, Et que le ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... these bathers had rented towels from an office on the stairs, but the great majority simply rubbed themselves with their hands and then dried in the sun. All washed their faces in the dirty water and rinsed their mouths with it. The men took off their loin clothes and washed these out, then wrapped them about their bodies and came out dripping water. The lone woman was very fat. She waded into the water and when she came out her thin robe clung to her massive form revealing all its curves. ...

— The Critic in the Orient • George Hamlin Fitch

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