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noun
Hip  n.  
1.
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2.
(Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
3.
(Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; a figure probably derived from wresting.
To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.



verb
Hip  v. t.  (past & past part. hipped; pres. part. hipping)  
1.
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
2.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
3.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.






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"Hipped roof" Quotes from Famous Books



... three lights in front, with one at each end of the projection, and horizontally by transoms into an upper and lower tier, the former having a trefoil heading to each division. There is a sloping hipped roof to the window, and a broad moulded corbel below it. The well-known rebus is boldly displayed upon the central of the five square panels (all sculptured) which adorn the face of this picturesque chamber (oriolum), probably ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield • George Worley

... a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere. Two large chimneys, much nearer together than is ordinarily the case, emerge within the inclosed area of the belvedere deck. A heavy pediment springs from ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins

... out the foolish-looking thing at first. It looked like the top of a long-hipped roof house that had been sawed off at the eaves and pushed into the water. The two little river steamers that accompanied the raft seemed to be ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon



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