About The Word Loin
Learn about the word Loin to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Loin definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Loin
| Loin Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Loin?
[n] either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds
[n] a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump Synonyms | Synonyms for Loin: lumbus Related Terms | Find terms related to Loin: back | blade roast | breast | brisket | Chateaubriand | chuck | chuck roast | clod | cold cuts | dorsal region | dorsum | filet mignon | flank | knuckle | plate | plate piece | pot roast | rack | rib roast | ribs | ridge | roast | rolled roast | round | rump | rump roast | saddle | shank | short ribs | shoulder | shoulder clod | sirloin | tenderloin See Also | body part | cut | cut of meat | homo | human | human being | man | quadruped Loin In Webster's Dictionary \Loin\, n. [OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed)
LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. {Lends}, {Lumbar},
{Nombles}.]
That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on
either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the
false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the
reins. See Illust. of {Beef}.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Merchant-venturer ‐ a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture…
- Pampered ‐ treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest childhood,…
- Obfuscation ‐ darkening or obscuring the sight of something [n] the activity…
- Beyond control ‐ out of control; "the riots got…
- Radar ‐ measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave…
- Hobbledehoy ‐ an awkward bad-mannered…
- Baphia nitida ‐ small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding…
- Sourdough bread ‐ made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation…
- Solicitorship ‐ the position of…
- Alosa chrysocloris ‐ shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very…