hocks in English

noun
1
the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backward.
These diseases can affect the shoulder, elbow, knee, or hock joints in animals.
2
a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.
If you wish, add the meat from the hock and season with salt and pepper.
3
a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.
This name being a bit of a tongue twister for the petite bourgeoisie who were immediately attracted to it, the truncated version, hock , became the name for every wine from the Rhine.
verb

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1. Bean soup mit ham hocks.

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3. Capped hocks form fluctuant swellings at the proximal limits of the calcaneal tuberosity

4. Their legs are generously feathered and they have vulture hocks like the Sultan chicken.

5. Defects -- Cowhocks, or straight hocks. Lack of muscle and propelling power.

6. 14 This stiffness prevents the horse from bending and bringing his hocks underneath him.

7. The Vaynol cattle are primitive and angular in appearance with curved hocks and a sloping rump.

8. The feet themselves, very loosely jointed at the hocks, often appear dislocated as they adjust to every angle and crevice.

9. Timber about him, his deep chest showing strength, his sloping shoulders, and well-bent hocks speed, and his "Bawsint" face high intelligence

10. Traditionally, Collards are paired with ham hocks and other pork for flavor and richness, but we have plenty of delicious vegetarian options

11. Railway shares ,Pr.IS tl,e ^Biggishness in Carloading figures for the week end- j llMj bren under pressure in the early P«tro,eum Hocks, wl Aug

12. Bangtail: the name given to a horse or cow in which the long hairs on the tail are sheared off horizontally, in the horse level with the hocks

13. Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) Appearance The Bontebok is a medium-sized, generally dark brown antelope with a prominent, wide white blaze on its face, with a pure white rump, belly and hocks, and black-tipped tail

14. ‘The smokehouse smokes anything that stands still for long enough; pheasant, ham hocks, Bloaters, garlic, eel, sausages.’ ‘Yarmouth Bloaters soon acquired a national reputation and the town remained in the top ten until the later 18th cent.’

15. A horse or cow that has been Bangtailed Prostitute To dock the hair at the end of a cows tail The name given to a horse or cow in which the long hairs on the tail are sheared off horizontally; in the horse, level with the hocks