Hock

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.

(2): ( n.) Alt. of Hough

(3): ( v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]

( עקר , ‛āḳar , "to root out"): To hamstring, i.e. to render useless by cutting the tendons of the hock (in the King James Version and the English Revised Version "hough"). "In their selfwill they hocked an ox" (  Genesis 49:6 , the King James Version "digged down a wall"), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also  Joshua 11:6 ,  Joshua 11:9;  2 Samuel 8:4 .

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