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Hock   /hɑk/   Listen
noun
Hock  n.  A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.


Hough, Hock  n.  
1.
(a)
The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
(b)
A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
2.
The popliteal space; the ham.


Hock  n.  
1.
The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in; as, all her jewelry is in hock.
2.
The state of being in debt; as, it took him two years to get out of hock.


verb
Hock  v. t.  
1.
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
2.
To pawn; as, to hock one's jewelry.





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"Hock" Quotes from Famous Books



... where the women and children slept. As he came running he grabbed for Brom Bones' bridle and tried to launch himself across the colt's back. In his leap a can of meat fell and a sharp corner of it struck and cut deep into Brom Bones' hock. The colt squealed ...
— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher
... the words of Clovelly, who had said to me that afternoon, half laughingly: "Dr. Marmion, I wonder how many of us wish ourselves transported permanently to that time when we didn't know champagne from 'alter feiner madeira' or dry hock from sweet sauterne; when a pretty face made us feel ready to abjure all the sinful lusts of the flesh and become inheritors of the kingdom of heaven? Egad! I should like to feel it once again. But how can we, when we have been intoxicated with many things; ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... hogsheads of wine, which was palatable and well-bodied. The idea that we cannot make good wine from our own Grapes is erroneous; I have tasted it quite equal to the Grave wines, and in some instances, when kept for eight or ten years, it has been drunk as hock by the nicest judges."—Pomarium Britannicum. It would have been more satisfactory if Mr. Phillips had told us the exact locality of any of these "flourishing Vineyards," for I can nowhere else find any account of them, except that in a map of five miles round Bath in 1801 a ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... long-skirted coat may so magnify the meagre physical endowments of a tall, slender girl that she attains the lank and longish look of a bottle of hock. ...
— What Dress Makes of Us • Dorothy Quigley
... avoid such for breeding purposes. It is also well known that, in the horse, for instance, certain forms of limbs predispose to certain diseases, as bone spavin is most commonly seen where there is a disproportion in the size of the limb above and below the hock, and others might be named of similar character; in all such cases the disease may be caused by an agency which would be wholly inadequate in one of more perfect form, but once existing, it is liable to be reproduced in the offspring—all tending to show the great importance ...
— The Principles of Breeding • S. L. Goodale


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