Main Entry: hind·quar·ter Function: noun Date: circa 1740
1: one side of the back half of the carcass of a quadruped including a leg and usually one or more ribs
2 plural : the hind pair of legs of a quadruped ; broadly : all the structures of a quadruped that lie posterior to the attachment of the hind legs to the trunk
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