HOCK

PRONUNCIATION: (hok, rhymes with clock)

MEANING: verb tr.: To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to make ineffective. (Also see hamstring and hough.)
noun: The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped animal, such as a horse, corresponding anatomically to the human ankle.
verb tr.: To pawn.
noun: 1. The state of being pawned.
2. Debt.
3. Prison.
verb tr.: To forcefully spit out something, such as phlegm.

ETYMOLOGY: For the leg-related senses: a variant of hough, from Old English hoh (heel).
For the pawn-related senses: from Dutch hok (pen, hutch, kennel, prison).
For the spit-related sense: a variant of hawk, of imitative origin.
Earliest documented use: 1540.
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HOC - Latin; masculine 3rd person singular of hic (this) in the accusative and nominative cases, and occasionally masculine in the ablative case as well

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