hip girdle

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hip girdle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
     huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
     Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of
     cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
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     1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of
        the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
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     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.
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     3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end
        post meets the top chord. --Waddell.
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     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. --Shak.
  
     To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat
        utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.
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