Hock is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOCK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pawn
• deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.
• To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
• leave as a guarantee in return for money
• disable by cutting the hock
• pawn
NOUN:
• a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.
• a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.
• joint in the leg of an animal corresponding to a human ankle
• A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
• Alt. of Hough
• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock\' is British usage)
• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
• the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.

Words related to HOCK

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How to use HOCK in a sentence

• The stifle and hock joints well bent, and not inclined either in or out.
• A Tahitian sucking-pig was killed and consumed in honour of our successful passage, and our native hemisphere toasted in real hock.
• Burgundy, port, and Madeira had made way for light claret, champagne, and hock.
• At this stage there is also considerable swelling along the whole course of the tendons, as high up as the knee or the hock.
• One day, I remember we were to have peas for dinner, with ham hock and corn bread.
• The ponies occasionally sink halfway to the hock, little Michael once or twice almost to the hock itself.
• Now he felt me all over, and soon found the place above my hock where I had been kicked.
• Sherry, hock, and claret succeeded each other, and the Farallone champagne brought up the rear with the dessert.
• The heel of the horse is the part commonly known as the hock.
• Warner sent some old hock, with orders that he should take some in his drink, and now and then a little plain.
• Neither of Hermitage nor of Hock can you say that it is the blood of those long years, retaining the strength of youth with the wisdom of age.
• The legs may be enlarged from the extremity to the body, but ordinarily the affection does not extend higher than the hock or the mid-tibial region.
• Next, have the leg brushed and hair clipped from the knee or hock to the foot and scrubbed with ethereal soap and warm water, after which the foot must be scrubbed in like manner.
• About seventy-five percent of cases of lameness affecting the hind leg may be said to arise from disease of the hock.
• Therefore, the application of rigid splints to the leg and including the hock is productive of disastrous results in some cases.
• His wound was long and deep, from the hock on the inside, up to the stifle-joint.
• The holly hock crest ground to powder was almost indistinguishable.
• Someone broke the holly hock plate and charged mother with the crime.
• For three weeks Reddy rubbed the lump on the hock with stuff from a brown bottle, and hid it from the inspector.
• The two packhorses fought for their very lives, often hock deep in a sucking mire.
• Boydell was also cultivating the vine, of which he made a light kind of wine, a very excellent species of hock.
• It is scarcely necessary to tell one of your habits, that the wines we call Hock are Rhenish, and that each properly bears the name of its own vintage.
• His drink, however, is claret, old hock, Madeira, and latterly, since it has become a sort of fashion, old sherry.

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