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Meanings of hock in anglès
espanyol
corvejón Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
Synonyms
Examples for "Rhine wine"
Examples for "Rhine wine"
1
A little light claret or Rhine wine may be allowed; nothing more.
2
His hungry men feasted on the Union's lobster salad and Rhine wine.
3
They had rich meats with them, and Rhine wine of the best.
4
Who would think that meant something sleek and pleasant, like Rhine wine?
5
Two bottles of precious Rhine wine stood in the cool without the window.
1
Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
2
The letter bore the postmark of a city in the Rhenish Palatinate.
3
The third prize was to be two tuns of good Rhenish wine.
4
Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
5
To Whitehall, and thence to the Rhenish wine-house, where I met Mons.
Usage of hock in anglès
1
John had gone to get more wine, a home-made hock this time.
2
A very large tendon is attached to the summit of the hock.
3
I was getting some of that hock her ladyship brought from London.
4
These are placed above the hock and retained by straps tightly fastened.
5
Seaman took a long and ecstatic draught of his hock and seltzer.
6
Discard the ham hock and rosemary, remove the vegetables and blend them.
7
We are about as much alike as sage tea and sparkling hock.
8
Yvonne Lorkin has a selection of wines to compliment the pork hock.
9
A salad, some sandwiches, a bottle of hock and plenty of strawberries.
10
Finally he succeeded, just as Mike had got Fidelity by the hock.
11
The edge is ragged, the skin abraded, but the hock is off.
12
I wonder if I shall know a horse's hock from his withers?
13
The devil had me in hock to his arse as it was.
14
The gas stations were in hock and he needed the money, said Karr.
15
Either way, Macron risks appearing in hock to the establishment that voters rejected.
16
The heel of the horse is the part commonly known as the hock.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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