Hock

Noun

 * 1) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.

Noun

 * 1) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
 * 2) Meat from that part of a food animal.

Verb

 * 1)  To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

Derived terms

 * in hock: in debt
 * on hock: a colloquial term used to describe an asset of a business being on a finance lease or ‘hire purchase’ arrangement

Thesaurus
ankle, bail, bayonet legs, bond, bottomry, bowlegs, calf, cnemis, deposit, drumstick, earnest, earnest money, escrow, foreleg, gage, gamb, gambrel, gigot, go bail, ham, handsel, hind leg, hostage, hypothecate, impignorate, jamb, knee, leg, limb, mainprise, mortgage, pawn, pignus, pledge, podite, popliteal space, post, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, recognizance, replevin, replevy, scissor-legs, shank, shin, spout, stake, stems, stumps, surety, tarsus, token payment, trotters, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium

Etymology 1
From hockamore:, from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.

Etymology 2
From hoch:, hough:, hocke:, from Old English hoh:, from  (cf. West Frisian hakke:, Dutch hak:, Low German undefined:), from  (cf. Lithuanian kìnka: ‘leg, thigh, knee-cap’, kenkle: ‘knee-cap’, Sanskrit कङ्काल: ‘skeleton’)

Etymology 3
From hok:.

Noun

 * Russian: скакательный сустав


 * Walloon: djeret


 * Russian: окорок

Verb

 * Dutch: verpanden
 * Finnish:


 * Spanish: empeñarse

Anagrams

 * Koch