| 单词 | gambrel joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgambrel joint attributive (in sense 2), esp. in gambrel joint. ΚΠ 1715 London Gaz. No. 5341/4 A white spot on the gambrel Sinew on the near Leg behind. 1809 Select Rev. June 367 From the thigh bones to the hock, or what is by some called the gambrel joints, should be pretty long. 1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine iv. 104 A fox struggling with a trap which held him by the hind leg, above the gambrel-joint! 1880 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 12 Apr. 8/3 Cary inadvertently severed the gambrel sinew of his beeve almost at the commencement of the contest. 1916 S. Merrill Moose Bk. vi. 145 The dog bites him on the gambrel muscles. 1985 J. M. Auel Mammoth Hunters xxiii. 358 The hind leg [of an elk or deer] bends so sharply at the gambrel joint it conforms to the natural shape of a human foot. < as lemmas |
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