hock

chiefly British

1. :  rhine wine 1

1. transitive verb

2. :  pawn

1. 1a :  ²pawn 2 got his watch out of hockb :  debt 3 in hock to the bank

2. 2 :  prison

1. 1 :  a small piece of meat from the leg of a pig ham hocks

2. 2 :  the part of the rear leg of a four-footed animal that is like a human ankle

1. :  the joint or region of the joint that unites the tarsal bones in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (as the horse) and that corresponds to the human ankle but is elevated and bends backward