hock

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To pawn.
• noun The state of being pawned.
• noun The state of being in debt.
• noun Rhine wine.
• noun The tarsal joint of the hind leg of certain quadrupeds, such as horses and dogs, corresponding to the human ankle but bending in the opposite direction.
• noun A joint in the leg of a domestic fowl similar to the hock of a quadruped.
• noun A small cut of meat, especially ham, from the front or hind leg directly above the foot.
• transitive verb To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; hamstring.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To ham-string; disable by cutting the sinew or tendon of the hock —that is the tendo Achillis.
• noun Mallow; hollyhock.
• noun The joint on the hind leg of a quadruped between the knee and the fetlock, corresponding to the ankle-joint in man; that part of the leg between the tibia and the cannon-bone, consisting of the ankle-bones more or less completely united.
• noun In man, the back part of the knee-joint; the ham.
• noun In the game of faro, the last card remaining in the box after all the others have been dealt.
• noun A variant of hack.
• noun A caterpillar.
• noun An old game of cards.
• noun Originally, the wine Hochheimer (which see).
• noun Any white German wine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
• noun A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
• noun The popliteal space; the ham.
• noun A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
• noun The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in.
• noun The state of being in debt.
• transitive verb To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
• transitive verb To pawn.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.
• noun The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
• noun Meat from that part of a food animal.
• verb transitive To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
• verb US To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly
• verb transitive, colloquial To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
• noun Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
• noun Debt.
• noun Installment purchase.
• noun Prison.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb leave as a guarantee in return for money
• noun any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
• verb disable by cutting the hock
• noun tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle