What is "huckle bone"

Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]

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.
   --Waddell.

   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.

Cockal \Cock"al\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]

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.]
   --Nares.

   A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal.
   --Herrick.

n. 1 The hip bone. 2 A small bone in the ankle; the astragalus.