Loin Definition

loin
loins
noun
loins
The lower part of the back on either side of the backbone between the hipbones and the ribs.
Webster's New World
The front part of the hindquarters of beef, lamb, mutton, veal, etc. with the flank removed.
Webster's New World
One of several cuts of meat, such as tenderloin, taken from this part of an animal's body, typically including the vertebrae of the segment from which it is taken.
American Heritage
The hips and the lower abdomen regarded as a part of the body to be clothed or as the region of strength and procreative power.
Webster's New World
The reproductive organs.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
  • lumbus
idiom
gird (up) one's loins
  • to get ready to do something difficult or strenuous
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Loin

Noun

Singular:
loin
Plural:
loins

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Origin of Loin

  • From Middle English loyne, from Old French loigne, assumedly from Late Latin root *lumbea, from Latin lumbus (“loin"), from Proto-Germanic *landwį̄, *landwijō (“waist, loins"), from Proto-Indo-European *lendhw- (“kidney, waist"). Cognate with Old English lendenu, Dutch lende, German Lende, Swedish länd (“haunch, loin"), Proto-Slavic *lÄ™dvÑŒja (Russian лядвея (ljadveja)). See also lende.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English loine from Old French loigne from Vulgar Latin lumbea (carō) loin (meat) feminine of *lumbeus of the loin from Latin lumbus loin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Loin Sentence Examples

  • They wear few clothes apart from a loin cloth or skirt of goat skin.

  • For dinner, enjoy filet of sole, filet mignon, sautéed shrimp or loin of lamb.

  • Will compliment fish in rich sauces, pasta and white meat such as pork loin with an apricot stuffing, quail or goose.

  • The overall ' Supreme ' winner was a loin of Scottish wild venison produced by Dundee company Highland Game.

  • To take the example given under Confusions of Words above, loin for lion in Cranford is probably a printer's error, but it is conceivable that it is due to a deflexion of the authoress's mind or pen through the accidental proximity of the "mutton chop."

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