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To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.

A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

ulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

The mallow.

To hamstring; to hock; to hough. Hanmer.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Quite full; choke-full.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

An earthquake.

A species of Althæa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

To shock mutually. [R.]

See Loch, a medicine.

See Mohawk.

a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook. And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. Tusser. Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks. Thomson.

Shock-headed. Tennyson.

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

See 7th Shock, 1.