Stook vs Hock - What's the difference?
stook | hock |
A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
* 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.
The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
Meat from that part of a food animal.
, obligation as collateral for a loan.
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Debt.
Installment purchase.
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Prison.
As nouns the difference between stook and hock
is that stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw while 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 or hock can be the tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog or hock can be , obligation as collateral for a loan.As verbs the difference between stook and hock
is that stook is (agriculture) to make stooks while hock is to disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough or hock can be (senseid)(colloquial) to leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan or hock can be (us) to bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.stook
English
Noun
(en noun)- And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
- The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
Derived terms
* stookerAnagrams
* ----hock
English
Etymology 1
From hockamore, from the name of the German town of .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English ‘skeleton’)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rattle one's hocksEtymology 3
.Noun
(-)- He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
- They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.