1865. Daily Tel., 4 March, 5/2. He [a thorough-bred greyhound] should be ‘headed like a snake, loined like a weasel, and breasted like a swan.’
1871. Daily News, 27 Nov., 2/1. She is slack loined and light in the hindquarters.
1898. A. Balfour, To Arms! xv. 271. Mounted on great clumsy brutes taken from the country folk, loose-loined and shaggy-fetlocked.
