hock¹ /hok/ or hough /hok or (Scot) hohh/

1. A joint on the hindleg of a quadruped, between the knee and fetlock, and sometimes on the leg of a domestic fowl, corresponding to the ankle joint in humans
2. A piece of meat extending from the hock joint upwards
3. In humans, the back part of the knee joint
4. The ham

To hamstring

hockˈer noun

hock³ /hok/ (slang)

To pawn

The state of being in pawn

in hock

1. In debt
2. In prison
3. Having been pawned, in pawn (informal)

hock⁴ /hok/

To subject to Hock-tide customs

To observe Hock-tide

Hockˈ-day or Hock Tuesday noun

An old English festival held on the second Tuesday after Easter Sunday, one of the chief customs being the seizing and binding of men by women until they gave money for their liberty

Hockˈ-days plural noun

Hock Tuesday and the preceding day (Hock Monday) on which the men seized the women in the same way

Hockˈ-tide noun

The two Hock-days

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