haunch
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It’s unlikely that anyone was looking at a gray wolf tearing a chunk from a bison haunch and saying “That’d make a great dog.”
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
She weeps when a swan walks out of a river and sits down beside her, haunch to haunch, like a large, companionable dog.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
Someone prepared the carcass; another person cut the left haunch; another was responsible for incisions along the shoulder.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
A spiral-sliced haunch of ham sheathed with fresh yellow rings is a staple of my Christmas dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2019
When that was done, she sat next to Iorek Byrnison as he gnawed a haunch of reindeer that was frozen as hard as wood.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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A Long Walk to Water
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