hind leg
Noun
Meaning
the back limb of a quadruped
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As for the arthritis, it has come to this: I was putting some horse liniment on my mare's injured hind leg last week (yep, she did it again) and realized that my arthritic writer's fingers felt a whole lot better.
In 1970, she met Roy, a two-year-old black Labrador retriever, in a veterinarian’s office, waiting to be put down after a hit-and-run driver crushed his left hind leg.
I train many disciplines, and a goal for them all is getting the horse’s hind leg moving up underneath him to drive from behind.
Old pillows jack it up like a dog's hind leg!
Students from Purdue University surround the wild animal and look on while wildlife technician Andy Burmesch draws blood from its hind leg.
When urinating, dholes, especially males, may raise one hind leg or both to result in a handstand.