Hock
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The word hock may mean:
- Hock (wine)Hock (wine)Hock is an English term for German wine, sometimes wine from the Rhine regions and sometimes all German wine. It is short for the now obsolete word hockamore. The term is a corruption of the name of the German town of Hochheim on the Main river in the Rheingau wine region...
, a type of wine - Hock (zoology)Hock (zoology)The hock, or gambrel, is the joint between the tarsal bones and tibia of a digitigrade or unguligrade quadrupedal mammal, such as a horse, cat, or dog...
, part of an animal's leg - Ham hockHam hockA ham hock or hough is the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot, where the foot was attached to the hog's leg...
, a meat joint from the lower leg of a pig - To leave an item with a pawnbrokerPawnbrokerA pawnbroker is an individual or business that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral...
- Hans Henrich Hock, German historical linguist
- Hock tide, an English holiday consisting of Hock Monday and Hock Tuesday
- A type of wine bottleWine bottleA wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. Some wines are fermented in the bottle, others are bottled only after fermentation. They come in a large variety of sizes, several named for Biblical kings and other figures. The standard bottle contains 750 ml,...
used primarily for German or Alsatian wine