hindleg

The thing in the case is about wolf-size, but the proportions are odd — the hock, or “dogleg,” only inches above the foot, so that most of the hindleg is a single long, unbending bone, and the tail seems too straight and long.

Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009

    The thing in the case is about wolf-size, but the proportions are odd — the hock, or “dogleg,” only inches above the foot, so that most of the hindleg is a single long, unbending bone, and the tail seems too straight and long.

Hunting the Thylacine 2009

He ducked down, grabbed the centaur by one foreleg and one hindleg, and hefted him to shoulder height.

Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

With one mighty blow of a hindleg, the carnivore downed the fright-paralyzed herbivore.

Cattle Town 2010

But he noticed something else, a movement under the topmost hindleg, a kind of tussle.

Hunting the Thylacine 2009

The hindleg-foreleg pattern may be the same, however, the rabbit track that my dog and I followed have very long, narrow hindlegs that I find distinquishable from all other tracks.

Squirrel tracks in snow II AYDIN 2009

But he noticed something else, a movement under the topmost hindleg, a kind of tussle.

Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009

His base is eroding rapidly as more people discover he is incompetant and as crooked as a dogs hindleg.

Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America 2005

The little maskless heeler's hindleg isn't much better today.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock. and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it.

Ulysses 2003