also huckle, huckle-bone, huck-bone.—The hip.
c. 1508. DUNBAR, Flyting (Poems, ed. 1834, ii., 72). With HUKEBANIS harth and haw.
d. 1529. SKELTON, The Tunnynge of Elynoure Rummynge (Poems, 1843, i., 96).
| The bones [of] her HUCKELS | |
| Lyke as they were with buckels. |
1575. STILL, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, i. 3 (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, iii., 180). For bursting of her HUCKLE-BONE, or breaking of her chair.
