hock

Speech parts

1. hock - Noun

2. hock - Verb

Meaning

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

To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pawn rhenish hough pledge mortgage soak hamstring hypothecate Rhine wine hock-joint huck gage shank trade marrowbone
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Antonyms

have bear pay freedom save deliver
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Hypernyms

charge joint invalid articulation disable handicap

Hyponyms

riesling liebfraumilch

Phrases with the word

in hock from soda to hock in the hock gammon hock hock of pork Hock rearrangement

Anagrams

Koch

Examples

He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer As he gazed at the London skies Through the Nottingham lace of the curtains Or was it his bees-winged eyes? John Betjeman

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. Mitch Daniels

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending. Mike Huckabee

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock. Paula Deen

pawn your grandfather's gold watch Source: Internet

As the three-year-old addition to the Toy Store in Quincy continues to serve up traditional cones, waffle cones and cups of Hock Family Ice Cream from Minden, NV., the owners claim to have sold more than 400 gallons in two-and-a-half months. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Hochstetler Hochul hochwohlgeboren hock cup Hock Monday hock of pork