Word Finder - hams

definition

The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

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A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.

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Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.

example

a little piece of ham for the cat

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The back of the thigh.

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Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.

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An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.

synonyms

• hambone
• hamfatter
• overactor
• tear-cat

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An amateur radio operator.

synonyms

• radio amateur

Swine, which are reared in great numbers in the plains, yield the famous Westphalian hams; and the rearing of cattle and goats is important.

It has a moderately short head with heavy jowl, a deep, compact carcase, and wide, low and well-developed hind-quarters, with heavy hams. The skin carries an abundance of fine hair.

Its acorn-fed swine are celebrated throughout Spain for their hams and bacon, and large herds of sheep and goats thrive where the pasture is too meagre for cattle.

The production of wool was 300,000,000 lb, as in the grease; tallow, 493,000 cwt.; butter, 500,000 cwt.; cheese, 42,000 cwt.; and bacon and hams, 110,000 cwt.

Game and trout are plentiful; milk, butter, hams, hides and wool are exported, principally to France.

They also afford feeding-ground for large herds of swine, and the hams and sausages of the Abruzzi enjoy a high reputation.

It is a seat of silk and cotton industries, and has a large trade in Westphalian hams and sausages.

There is also a brisk trade in agricultural produce, hams, sausages, coal, wine, leather good and hops.

The pork and hams of Estremadura are famous; goats milk and cheese are important articles of diet.

Selection of mouth-watering tapas including roast chorizo, patatas bravas and a selection of Spanish hams.

The picture shows Fred Hams and the honorary curator.

Established in 1977 Castlewood has emerged as one of Northern Irelandâs leading distributors of pork, bacon, sausages and cooked hams.

If you wish to report an encampment please contact either Devon County Council or South Hams District Council.

These included a pantry which contained cheeses, hams and fruit some of which they stuffed into sacks for later.

The meat counter includes traceable local hams cooked on the premises, along with the best European salamis.

Nick builds smokehouses in his spare time and uses his shed to cure and age hams.

Even in those roles, his signature quirky humor was seen, as he once predicted hail stones "the size of canned hams."

The legs are comprised of four major muscle groups, the quads, hams, calves and buttocks.

You would lean forward until you were in a push-up position and then you would use your hips, hams and glutes to pull you back upright.

Now, more gyms are getting on board with a dedicated machine that targets your hips, hams and glutes without the need for you to get down on the ground.

This simple machine doesn't contain weight plates or pulleys; instead it uses your own weight as resistance to tone your hams and glutes.

Bending at the waist, with your knees straight you'll relax your glutes and hams.

Five to seven reps per set are all that is required to work your hams; with the extra time between hamstring sets, you can focus some of your attention on your back and core.

Here you'll find lingerie that hams it up for a great laugh, as well as more sultry looks.

If the person who is wearing the ghoul mask hams it up, it will make the game even funnier.

The column headed bacon and hams indicates clearly enough that the imports of fresh meat did not displace those of preserved pig meat, for the latter expanded from 4,715,000 cwt.

The islets are usually styled hams and the isolated rocks skerries.

Central Germany (especially Gotha and Brunswick) exports sausages and hams largely, as well as Westphalia, but here again considerable importation takes place from other countries.

She was stripped out to the forward bulkhead, the poor girls sketchy attire was spread all around the South Hams.