A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on thehock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself.
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
The butler brought the hock and seltzer, and a large tumbler, into which such a liberal portion of wine was poured that Lady Barmouth looked horrified, and the old gentleman chuckled and squeezed Maude's hand under the table.
Cold boiled sole, rice pudding, and half a glass of hock in a tumbler of water.
But if it is preferred to have plenty of lard and sausage, cut a smart strip from off the neck side of the shoulder and make the piece assume the form of a parallelogram, with the hock attached to one end.
Seize the hock of the ham with the left hand and with the knife in the other, proceed to round out the ham, giving it a neat, oval shape.
Care must be taken to get some salt into every depression and into the hock end of all joints.
Taking a handful of the salt, he applies it dextrously by a gliding motion of the hand to all the surface, and does not forget the hock end of the bones where the feet have been cut off.
The hockwas at its full value, the bill a heavy one.
There was hock which was owed to bright smiles to a Society wine merchant, who sent it to her at cost price.
He had stored away, kept for customers with palates, a few casks of port which was not branded and flavoured for the English taste, some good hock and claret.
The hock was one of the best, the old brandy cost fourteen or fifteen shillings a bottle, the port was vintage.
The Chief has got that jurist inhock to him, d'ye see!
Doctor, our liberties are in hock to the politicians, and we've lost the ticket.
You always come to me for what you want; you can hock your socks I'll back you up.
But--but ask if he will come and have some lunch, and get a bottle of hock up, please.
He happened to have been all day in the open, motoring about to horse farms under a hot sun; and Leila's hock cup possessed a bland and subtle strength.
At his dinner and supper he drank hock or burgundy.
Footnote 56: He was frequently charged with drinking expensive wines, but the hock he had straight from Bensheim at a cost of 1s.
Hock Cup Pour over a block of ice in a punch bowl, a wine glass of Maraschino, two quarts of apollinaris, two quarts of sparkling hock and the juice of two lemons.
Clovelly plaintively said, as he drank his hock and seltzer, that the bookmaker was hourly saving his life; and Colonel Ryder admitted at last that Kentucky never produced anything quite like him.
Well, I'm not keen on hearing anyone fiddle any better than you do," Hock answered soberly.
The friendship between Hockand Archie was the wonder of the town.
Hock heard of it first--nothing ever escaped his lynx-like ears.
Some people said, "Hock is so coarse and loud and slangy, I don't see how Archie Anderson can have anything to do with him.
In the twinkling of an eye Hock was off again with crowds of running men and boys; the fire engines went clanging past with the rattle and roar of galloping horses and shouting men.
In after years Hock knew what made him have these good impulses while he listened to Archie's playing.
It was the most gorgeous affair on record, and half the dress suits in college went into hock afterward for the whole semester.
I met him again a few days later, and he told me he had n't heard a word as yet; that his trunk was in hock at the hotel, and altogether he was in the deuce of a fix.
There was n't a thing I could hock nor no one that I could 'give the borry.
The only thing I can think of for me to do is to get engaged and hock the betrothal ring for a meal ticket.
I had everything in hock but my self-respect, and I had that ready to tuck under my shawl at a moment's notice and rush off to Uncle Sim's.
What with no rest and no solid refreshment, and the rivers of hock that are flowing within me, and the infernal exertion of running round that vile hall, I feel fairly exhausted, and could at this moment fall from my saddle.
I could join you in a glass of hock and a slice of venison, I confess, my good fellow; but in a nocturnal ride I am no longer your match.
He was indeed wearied, and agreed to take a glass of hock and seltzer.
Lady Marabout, across the table, as shocked as though a footman had dropped a cascade of iced hock over her.
If it were a sharp brush, it would put life into one; as it is, it only inspires one with an intense suffering from boredom, and an intense desire for hock and seltzer.
Then, wagons from the British slaughter-houses arrived, loaded with the hock bones of the cattle killed for the British troops.
These wagons having been backed up to the door of the barn, the hock bones were shoveled in on the floor, while the prisoners scrambled for what they could get.
A horse with an enlargedhock must always be regarded with suspicion.
The strong oval bone stretching between the knee and fetlock-joint in the fore-leg, and between the hock and fetlock-joint in the hind-leg.
A sac of synovial fluid formed between the bones of the hock from side to side.
Measured from the stifle-joint to the point of hock should be twenty-eight inches in a well-bred horse of fifteen hands and three-quarters.
Parts of fore-leg between knee and fetlock, and parts of hind-leg between hock and fetlock.
Skim slightly, and add the hock of an old ham, and strained tomato juice one pint.
He staggered into the room with a tin of biscuits under one arm, and three bottles of hock under the other, all of which he deposited noisily upon the round table in the middle of the room.
A salad, some sandwiches, a bottle of hock and plenty of strawberries.
