💰 To pawn 🍷 A white wine 🦵 Ankle joint (animal) 🐎 To injure a leg

to hock

1 9.9

Cut the thin bands at a horse's hind leg joint to stop it walking

verb
/hɑk/

NSFW

: cortar los tendones del corvejón

After the accident, the veterinarian advised that they might need to hock the horse to prevent further suffering.

Examples

The trainer explained that a severe injury could lead them to hock the injured horse permanently.
He had to hock the horse after it injured its leg in the race.
I'm three months behind on my note... and I had to hock my horse and trailer.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
And I didn't oil her up so you can hock her.

The Lost Weekend (1945)
Take a look and see if there isn't a stone bruisin' that hock down there.

Stagecoach (1939)
В¶ Toddlers eat fatty foods В¶ And keep shitty toys hocked by the star.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Antonyms

to enable

459 2.3

To give someone the ability or chance to do something

Compounds

ham hock

4 4.8

A piece of pork from the lower leg used to flavor soups and stews

hock-joint

Specialized

9.6

A joint in the back leg of animals like horses similar to a human ankle

Surface Forms

hock infinitive

hocked past

hocked past participle

hocking present participle

hocks third person singular

Etymology

Hock (verb) comes from the name of the joint on a horse's hind leg, the hock, which is like a human 'ankle'. So to hock an animal came to mean cutting the tendons at that joint to stop it moving.