loin
part of speech
noun (a loin, loins)
meaning for a pupil
1) Loin is a cut of meat from the back of an animal, between the ribs and the hips: pork loin, lamb loin. tree →
2) (old, Bible) The loins are the part of the body around the hips and lower belly; «gird up your loins» meant get ready for hard work or a fight. tree →
sense in the lessons
In cooking and shops: pork loin, loin chops, sirloin steak. In the Bible and old stories, people «gird up their loins» (tuck in long robes to run or work) and children are said to come «from the loins» of a father. Phrases: «loin of pork», «loin chops», «gird up your loins», «loincloth».
examples
- We had roast pork loin for Sunday dinner. tree →
- The butcher cut four lamb loin chops. tree →
- Sirloin is a cut of beef from near the loin. tree →
- «Gird up your loins,» says an old Bible verse. tree →
- In hot lands some people wore only a loincloth. tree →
- Grandad joked, «Gird your loins, we're cleaning the garage!» tree →
- This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins. tree →
note
Usually plural «loins» for the body part; that use is old-fashioned. «Sirloin» and «tenderloin» are related meat words. «Loincloth» is a cloth worn round the hips.
In the corpora
- C'est loin ? means "Is it far?"; loin is far and près is near.
- And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.
- And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «loin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.