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That part of the leg at the back of the knee; the hollow or bend of the knee.
(a) the part of the leg at the back of the knee, the back of the thigh or hough; (b) in a cotton-yarn winding-machine (see quot.).
The hollow part behind the knee-joint in humans; the adjacent back part of the thigh. Chiefly Scottish.
= houghs (see hough, n.) or hocks (see hock, n.2).