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Hock vs Thoroughpin - What's the difference?

hock | thoroughpin |

As nouns the difference between hock and thoroughpin

is that hock is a Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines while thoroughpin is an abnormal swelling (tenosynovitis) on the sides of the hock joint of horses.

As a verb hock

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

hock

English

Etymology 1

From hockamore, from the name of the German town of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English ‘skeleton’)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
  • Meat from that part of a food animal.
    • Derived terms
    * rattle one's hocks

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

    • Etymology 3

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (senseid)(colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • , obligation as collateral for a loan.
    • He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
  • *
  • Debt.
    • They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
  • Installment purchase.
  • *
  • Prison.
    • Derived terms
    * Hock Monday * Hock Tuesday

    Etymology 4

    (Hakn a tshaynik) (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * hak

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly

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    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    thoroughpin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abnormal swelling (tenosynovitis) on the sides of the hock joint of horses