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▸ noun: (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
▸ noun: Meat from that part of a food animal.
▸ noun: (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
▸ verb: (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
▸ noun: Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
▸ noun: Debt.
▸ noun: Installment purchase.
▸ noun: Prison.
▸ verb: (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
▸ noun: (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
▸ verb: Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”) [(transitive) To hunt with a hawk.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of hawk (“cough”) [A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.]
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