Huckle vs Hockle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between huckle and hockle

is that huckle is the hip, the haunch while hockle is a knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.

to damage cordage by twisting against the lay.

(en noun)

(label) The hip, the haunch.

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* 1687 , The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha and His Trusty Squire (translated by JP), Book II, page 433:

* 1837 , John French Burke, British husbandry: exhibiting the farming practice , page 392:

A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

(Udall)

A homosexual man.

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Probably from (hackle), a brush once used for fraying flax, and related to .

(en noun)

A knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.

To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.

From imperfect and past participle (hockled); from present participle and verbal noun (hockling). From (hock).

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

To mow, as stubble.

Probably onomatopoeic.

(-)

(Geordie, vulgar) spit, spittle

(Geordie) To spit.