Houghs

It was nearly sunset ere they overtook the marauding party, who were encamped, having penned up the sheep in a rude stockyard formed of houghs. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their yoke creaked, they breathed heavily, and the muscles of their houghs were stretched as if they would burst. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers: the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Drifting in the place between waking and sleeping she felt a great satisfaction, for her weary muscles again knew how to find rest upon beds made of fragrant houghs and leaves whose perfume was that of eternal autumn. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2002)

[3346] Literally, "In both houghs," in ambabus suffraginibus. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

Still, against those patent blemishes, a judge of conformation would have set the splendid sloping shoulders, the reaching forearm, the bunches of massy muscle in the long loin, the quarters well let down into perfect houghs, the fine, clean bone of knees and ankles, the firm, close-grained hoofs spreading faintly from coronet to base. ❋ Various (N/A)

Even there the houghs will sag and loose their powers. ❋ Titus Lucretius Carus (1910)

Hieland coat, and my puir short houghs gartered below the knee, like ane o 'your lang-legged gillies. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Dost thou not twirl like a calf that hath the turn, and twitch up thy houghs just ❋ Unknown (1885)

Next came the chariots of the young princes royal, drawn by thoroughbred horses, elegantly and nobly formed, with slender legs, sinewy houghs, their manes cut short like a brush, harnessed by twos, tossing their red-plumed heads, with metal-bossed headstalls and frontlets. ❋ Various (1885)

CURUNDDOCH, CURCUDDY, _s. _ a dance among children, in which they sit down on their houghs, and hop round, in different directions. ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)

Somehow or other, the clothes made on my shopboard came into great vogue through all Dalkeith, both for neatness of shape and nicety of workmanship; and the young journeymen of other masters did not think themselves perfected, or worthy a decent wage, till they had crooked their houghs for three months in my service. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

M'Durk's health to major about in the tartans like a tobacconist's sign in a frosty morning, wi 'his poor wizzened houghs as blue as a blawort? ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

-- Wae betide ye! "she said, suddenly changing her tone," and cut the houghs of the creature whase fleetness ye trust in! ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

David houghed the horses of the Syrians (2 Sam.viii. 4); here he houghs all the horses in the world, by pronouncing a horse a vain thing for safety in the day of battle. ❋ Unknown (1721)

My houghs are aching, my arms fair pulled out of their oxter's, carrying shopping bags the equivalent in weight of a Volkswagen under each arm. ❋ Unknown (2009)