Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
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Examples for "hock"
Examples for "hock"
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.
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.
6
Go bring me a pint of Rhenish wine from the Saint George.
7
We will give his droll account of his entrance into Rhenish Prussia.
8
He considered a moment longer, and took a deep draught of Rhenish.
9
Thence we rode through Rhenish Prussia on, on, until we reached Cologne.
10
The foaming flagons of lager and the green-necked bottles of Rhenish circulated merrily.
11
The Rhenish provinces, Alsatia, and the Palatinate, must be transformed into a waste.
12
Sometimes to the Rhenish House, sometimes to Pontack's in Abchurch Lane.
13
Do you really think that I expect to eat Rhenish cherries at midsummer.
14
Reubens would have sipped a few drops of Rhenish from a Venetian glass.
15
By way of a stronger potation, Rhenish wine was much to his taste.
16
It was clear Rhenish wine, from that shop in St James's, in her London.