Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To snap at threateningly, as a wild or infuriated animal.
- noun In architecture, same as
haunch , 6.
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- noun variant of
hance - noun variant of
haunch
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Examples
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Make the paste as you do for red deer, course drest through a boulter, a peck and a pottle of this meal will serve for a side or half hanch of a buck.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Thus you may broil any hanch of venison, and serve it with gravy only.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Broil the chine raw as you do the half hanch, bread it and serve it with gravy.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Hasselt (has'elt), a town in Belgium. haunch (hanch), the hip, part of body between the ribs and thigh.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Take for a side or half hanch of red deer, half a bushel of rye meal, being coursly searsed, and make it up very stiff with boiling water only.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Take a side, or half hanch, and either lard them with small lard, or stick them with cloves; but parboil them before you lard them, then spit and roast them.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Take half a hanch, and cut the fattest part into thick slices half an inch thick; salt and broil them on the warm embers, and being finely soaked, bread them, and serve them with gravy only.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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If you will stuff or farse any venison, stick them with rosemary, tyme, savory, or cloves, or else with all manner of sweet herbs, minced with beef-suet, lay the caul over the side or half hanch, and so roast it.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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My Lady of Newport bakes her Venison in a dish thus; A side or a hanch serves for two dishes.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Bought with a flag's delicious hanch The mercenary wolf was ftanch:
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