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noun
Hip  n.  
1.
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2.
(Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
3.
(Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; a figure probably derived from wresting.
To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.



verb
Hip  v. t.  (past & past part. hipped; pres. part. hipping)  
1.
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
2.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
3.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.






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"Hipped roof" Quotes from Famous Books



... a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere. Two large chimneys, much nearer together than is ordinarily the case, emerge within the inclosed area of the belvedere deck. A heavy pediment springs from ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins

... three lights in front, with one at each end of the projection, and horizontally by transoms into an upper and lower tier, the former having a trefoil heading to each division. There is a sloping hipped roof to the window, and a broad moulded corbel below it. The well-known rebus is boldly displayed upon the central of the five square panels (all sculptured) which adorn the face of this picturesque chamber (oriolum), probably ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield • George Worley



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