The phrase "a hock of" is not standard in written English and may be considered incorrect or unclear.
It could potentially be used in a specific context related to meat, particularly when referring to a cut of meat from the hind leg of a pig, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The chef prepared a hock of ham for the festive dinner."
Alternatives: "a piece of" or "a cut of".
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.
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.
At the very least, you'll want to make sure it isn't a hock of Okja, the big, brown-eyed hippo creature whose salvation seats this girl-and-her-monster story.
Where to store your bibs Add a hock to the back of the highchair for storing bibs.
Like the Gál Tibor Egri Bikaver, it's the kind of thing that works best with a little time in the fridge and served with cured meat – a salty hock of ham at Christmas perhaps.
The beautiful final ball, the half-formed celebration, the preening hubris of the would-be goalscorer; the elegantly outstretched foot suddenly transformed into a clumsy great hock of ham.
And why? Because... well, he can kill a pig with his bare hands, and then produce his own hock of ham and serve it with a home-made puy lentil accompaniment.
Lora Lee Hock, a daughter of Virginia and William G. Hock of Dix Hills, N.Y., was married yesterday in Setauket, N.Y., to Ronald Timothy Greene, the son of Vivian J. and Ronald H. Greene of Cartersville, Ga.
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.
Each was the size of a ham hock and had a cap of melted Gruyère and a warm, eggy interior.
Some of my favourite bean meals are of the simplest design requiring just a smoked ham hock, handfuls of garlic and parsley.
