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 Cock·al n.
 1. A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice. [Obs.]
 2. The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.]
 A little transverse bone
 Which boys and bruckeled children call
 (Playing for points and pins) cockal.   --Herrick.
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 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. --Shak.
 To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.

 Huc·kle n.
 1. The hip; the haunch.
 2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
 Huckle bone. (a) The hip bone; the innominate bone. (b) A small bone of the ankle; astragalus. [R.]
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