HIND LEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hind leg mean? 

• HIND LEG (noun)
  The noun HIND LEG has 1 sense:

1. the back limb of a quadruped

  Familiarity information: HIND LEG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIND LEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The back limb of a quadruped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hind leg" is a kind of...):

hind limb; hindlimb (a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals)

Meronyms (parts of "hind leg"):

hock; hock-joint (tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle)

gaskin (lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle)

knee; stifle (joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee)

Holonyms ("hind leg" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

Several times he fell down and was dragged in the traces, and once the sled ran upon him so that he limped thereafter in one of his hind legs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In the middle of it, White Fang, rushing in, sank his teeth into Lip-lip's hind leg.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In a week or less, from what I see, John Bull will be on his hind legs and fair ramping.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sprang up on his hind legs, resting his fore paws on her hip and at the same time licking Skiff Miller's hand.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The inscription beneath it runs: 'Probable appearance in life of the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus. The hind leg alone is twice as tall as a full-grown man.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes raised the hind leg of one of them and laughed aloud.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its two most distinctive features are its blue-black tongue and its almost straight hind legs, which causes it to walk rather stilted.

(Chow Chow, NCI Thesaurus)

Remonstrance was of no use, then; so I laughed, and admired, and was very much in love and very happy; and she showed me Jip's new trick of standing on his hind legs in a corner—which he did for about the space of a flash of lightning, and then fell down—and I don't know how long I should have stayed there, oblivious of Traddles, if Miss Lavinia had not come in to take me away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Old Mother Nature’s going to get up on her hind legs and howl for all that’s in her, and it’ll keep us jumping, Hump, to pull through with half our boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog’s shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat’s head.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)