hock
noun
[ hɒk ]
• the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.
• a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.
Origin:
late Middle English: variant of hough.
hock
verb
• deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.
Origin:
mid 19th century (in the phrase in hock ): from Dutch hok ‘hutch, prison, debt’.
hock
noun
• a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.
Origin:
abbreviation of obsolete hockamore, alteration of German Hochheimer (Wein) ‘(wine) from Hochheim’.
hock
noun
• variant spelling of hawk3.
in hock
• having been pawned.
• "the family jewels are in hock already"
