The phrase "a hock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the anatomy of animals, particularly in reference to the hock joint of a horse or similar animals, or in culinary contexts referring to a cut of meat.
Example: "The chef recommended using a hock for the stew to enhance the flavor."
Alternatives: "a joint" or "a cut of meat".
Where to store your bibs Add a hock to the back of the highchair for storing bibs.
They cut the thyroid glands into razor-thin sections, as if carving a hock of ham into prosciutto slices, and peered at the sections under a microscope.
The trainer is also planning a comeback for What's Up Boys, who broke a hock in Wetherby's Charlie Hall Chase early last season, at Wincanton on Saturday.
Kauto Star could have made it, having fractured a hock with a fall at Exeter early in his career, although there never seemed to be much doubt that he would return as good as before.
OVER grilled prawns, a hock of boiled ham, fish curry, chorizo, paella, red wine and Scotch, Father Lancelot Rodrigues and his guests a handful of European priests, mixed-race Macanese, local Chinese and the Irish manager of the dog-track, Brian Murphy were full of admiration.
"You can do with them what you never would with a hock or claret, trundle them about in a car, opened and all, fling in a handful of ice, drink them without a glass, drink them at all hours, with any food, in carefree quantities".
A hock-to-head self-inventory of those things about which Opie instructs me to feel lucky reveals, I think, the awkward, unretouched reality of an average man waging an average fight against his own decline.
eBay's online marketplace raked in nearly $6 billion last year helping people sell nearly anything they've got, including a hocking a few iPhones.
That would mean that Walsh asked him to jump a fence at racing speed with a fractured hock, a horrifying idea.
Each was the size of a ham hock and had a cap of melted Gruyère and a warm, eggy interior.
The whiffed punches sounded like a fist smacking a ham hock.
