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hock

[hok] / hɒk /
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pawn
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Markets are likely to expect higher U.K. public spending under Burnham due to his past comments that the U.K. shouldn’t be “in hock to the bond markets,” Deutsche Bank strategists said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Razor-sharp teeth and surgical precision allow the bats to make an incision in an animal, such as in the hock of a cow, without the animal feeling it.

From Science Daily May 21, 2024

She added that the risk of hock burn "is significantly higher when birds are poorly managed, genetically selected to grow very fast or reared in overcrowded conditions".

From BBC Feb. 28, 2024

But the amount of hock burn within a poultry flock is an industry-accepted indicator of wider welfare standards on farms.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2024

Pascagoula set them out to soak last night, instructed me on how to put them in the pot and turn on the flame, put the ham hock in with them.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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