haunches 的定义
- the hip.
- the fleshy part of the body about the hip.
- a hindquarter of an animal.
- the leg and loin of an animal, used for food.
- 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.
haunches 近义词
upper legs
更多haunches例句
- “He was so quick, he could get around you before you got off your haunches,” says one former teammate.
- Face red, eyes bulging to the ceiling, she lifted the bar from its stand and then lowered herself onto her haunches.
- Pulling the horse on his haunches, and swinging him round at the same moment as if on a pivot, he made a bound to the left.
- Old Captain sat up on his haunches, his slantwise eyes wide open with wonder.
- "Stop, my young friend," said Crafty, sitting bolt upright on his haunches.
- But Frederick seized the horse by the bridle, and with a violent jerk forced the animal back upon its haunches.
- Charley's horse fell back upon his haunches;—there was giant might in the hand that reined him;—an inch nearer, and she was lost!