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Same as Hockday.

See Hockey.

Same as Hock, a joint.

To hock; to hamstring. See Hock. [Obs.] Shak.

That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock.

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

shine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

the hind leg of a horse. [Written also sellanders, and sellenders.] On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and "sallenders" in the hind leg. Youatt.

Hockey; shinney. Bartlett.

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.

A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson.

A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular…

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.

leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. [Written also springhalt.]

Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast. [Obs.]

A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.…