LOIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loin mean? 

• LOIN (noun)
  The noun LOIN has 2 senses:

1. a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump

2. either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds

  Familiarity information: LOIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("loin" is a kind of...):

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loin"):

short loin (the portion of the loin from which porterhouse steaks are cut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

loin; lumbus

Hypernyms ("loin" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("loin" is a part of...):

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

 Context examples 

I say to them, ‘Now, gents, fightin’ is my profession, and I don’t fight for love any more than a doctor doctors for love, or a butcher gives away a loin chop.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Topline slopes upward from the withers to the loin.

(Old English Sheepdog, NCI Thesaurus)

In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There will be the leg to be salted, you know, which is so very nice, and the loin to be dressed directly in any manner they like.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Are we not all from Adam's loins, all with flesh and blood, and with the same mouth that must needs have food and drink?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He led him into the king’s cellar, and the man bent over the huge barrels, and drank and drank till his loins hurt, and before the day was out he had emptied all the barrels.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Hot! He had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot Church; but look at his forehand; look at his loins; only see how he moves; that horse cannot go less than ten miles an hour: tie his legs and he will get on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)