loin
Translation
loin, lower back
Examples
He felt a pain in his loins.
He felt a pain in his loins.
We had roast loin of pork for dinner.
We had roast loin of pork for dinner.
Grammar Patterns
a pain in ((one's)) loins a pain in one's lower back He has a pain in his loins.
loin of ((meat)) a cut of meat from the loin I bought a loin of pork.
Similar Words
Synonyms: waist, lower back; (meat) tenderloin, sirloin
Etymology
From Old French 'loigne', from Latin 'lumbus' (loin).
Memory Tips
Sounds like 'line'. Imagine the line of your lower back. For meat, imagine a 'line' of delicious pork.