ˈhuggin dial.
Also huggan, -on.
[cf. huck n.1, huck-bone.]
The hip-bone, esp. of a horse or cow.
| 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 28 His Ribs elevate and round near the Huggon or Haunch-Bones. 1829 Glover's Hist. Derby I. 205 From his huggin or hip bone to the root of his tail, 2 ft. 1 in. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Huggan, the hipbone of a horse or cow. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Huggon, the hip-bone of a horse. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss., Huggin, the hip. I was always a poor shortwaisted thing, my huggins come up so high. |