hock

1. the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.
2. a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.

late Middle English: variant of hough.

verb

deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.

mid 19th century (in the phrase in hock ): from Dutch hok ‘hutch, prison, debt’.

noun

a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.

abbreviation of obsolete hockamore, alteration of German Hochheimer (Wein) ‘(wine) from Hochheim’.

noun, verb

variant spelling of hawk³.