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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



... some hock in the sideboard, and after she had drunk it they sat for some few minutes in agitated silence. The street sounds outside had died away. Julian's was the topmost flat in the block, and their isolation was complete. ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... expect we shall be ready for a hock and seltzer, at any rate," said the Colonel. "This desert dust gives a flavour to ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... Monty limped slightly as he moved about the corral. Whitey did not know that a hair tied around a horse's leg, just above the hock, will make the animal limp, and will not be noticeable, nor that as a part of Bill's scheme Monty had been so treated. So Whitey was worried about his pony, but Bill assured him that Monty would probably be all right in a day or ...
— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart
... own head? Cheapest lunch in town. Of course aristocrats, then the others copy to be in the fashion. Milly too rock oil and flour. Raw pastry I like myself. Half the catch of oysters they throw back in the sea to keep up the price. Cheap no-one would buy. Caviare. Do the grand. Hock in green glasses. Swell blowout. Lady this. Powdered bosom pearls. The elite. Creme de la creme. They want special dishes to pretend they're. Hermit with a platter of pulse keep down the stings of the flesh. Know me come eat with me. Royal ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... cider with his tea—a cup of tea one side and a mug of cider on the other. The German bands, who wander even into these extreme parts of the country, always ask for cider, which they say reminds them of their own wines at home—like hock, or Rhenish. Though the junction of Earle and Exe is a long way from the sea (as the Exe winds), salmon come far up above that to the moors. Salmon-fishing is preserved, but poachers take them at night ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies


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