a. The tarsal joint of the hind leg of certain quadrupeds, such as horses and dogs, corresponding to the human ankle but bending in the opposite direction.
b. A joint in the leg of a domestic fowl similar to the hock of a quadruped.
2. A small cut of meat, especially ham, from the front or hind leg directly above the foot.
tr.v.hocked, hock·ing, hocks
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; hamstring.
[Middle English hok, variant (perhaps originally arising in compounds such as hough sineue, hock sinew, Achilles tendon, hamstring, and hokschynes, literally "hock shins," ankles (meaning uncertain)) of hough, heel, hock, from Old English hōh, heel.]
hock 2
(hŏk)
n.Chiefly British
Rhine wine.
[Short for obsolete Hockamore, alteration of German Hochheimer, from Hochheim, a town of west-central Germany.]
hock 3
(hŏk)Slang
tr.v.hocked, hock·ing, hocks
To pawn: hock a diamond ring.
n.
1. The state of being pawned: put the diamonds in hock.
2. The state of being in debt: thought we'd never get out of hock.
1. the joint in the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., above the fetlock joint, corresponding anatomically to the ankle in humans.
2. a corresponding joint in a fowl.
[1375–1425; variant of dial. hough, Middle English ho(u)gh, appar. back formation from late Middle English hokschyn, etc., Old English hōhsinu hock (literally, heel) sinew]
hock2
(hɒk)
n. Chiefly Brit.
any white Rhine wine.
[1615–25; short for Hockamore, alter. of German Hochheimer <Hochheim, Germany]
hock3
(hɒk) v.t.
1. to pawn.
n.
2. the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn.
a joint on the hind leg of an animal, below the knee. The horse has an injured hock. hakskeengewrig عُرْقوب става в долната част на задния крайник на копитно животно jarrete hlezno das Fesselgelenk hase ταρσόςcorvejón põlveõnnal مفصل خرگوشی kinner jarret קַרסוֹל הַסוּס जानवरों के पिछले पैर का जोड़ skocni zglob (stražnje) konjske noge csánk (lóé, marháé) sendi kaki hækilbein garretto 後足のひざ 비절(飛節) kulnas, gurnas paceles cīpsla (dzīvniekam) pergelangan kaki belakang spronggewrichthase nadpięstek د څارویو د شا د پخو منځنی jarrete jaret скакательный сустав pätový kĺb podkolenica (pri živali) kolenica has ข้อเท้าหลังของสัตว์สี่เท้า art diz (動物後腿上)跗關節 жижки چوپاۓ کی پچھلی پنڈلی khuỷu chân sau 跗关节
Professor Erlin prided himself on his skill in preparing this mild intoxicant, and after supper the large bowl of hock and soda, with scented herbs floating in it and wild strawberries, was placed with solemnity on the round table in the drawing-room.
'"To the Lady of Grogzwig!" shouted the Lincoln greens; and down their four-and-twenty throats went four-and-twenty imperial pints of such rare old hock, that they smacked their eight-and-forty lips, and winked again.
I have not inquired among my medical acquaintance, whether Turtle, and cold Punch, with Hock, Champagne, and Claret, and all the slight et cetera usually included in an unlimited order for a good dinner - especially when it is left to the liberal construction of my faultless friend, Mr.
Bright shone the sun on battlement and tower, and in the blue air overhead a Hock of clattering jackdaws flew around the gilded weather vane and spire.
Threadgall at the time, plying her confidentially with a glass of hock. She dropped her head, and said in a very low voice, "My beloved husband is no more."
But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
This man was as hard-tempered and hard-handed as Samson; he always spoke in a rough, impatient voice, and if I did not move in the stall the moment he wanted me, he would hit me above the hocks with his stable broom or the fork, whichever he might have in his hand.
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