When the hams are cured separately from the sides, which is generally the case, they are cut out so as to include the hock-bone, in a similar manner to the London mode of cutting a haunch of mutton.

I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes; Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes * *

We've shivered in standings hock-deep in the mud, With matted tails turned to the drift of the sleet; We've seen the bombs flash and been spattered with blood Of mates as they rolled, belly-ripped, at our feet.

CHAPTER II REGIONAL ANATOMY Considered from a zoological standpoint, the foot of the horse will include all those parts from the knee and hock downwards.

The New Ironsides lies at one of the wharves, elephantine in bulk and color, her sides narrowing as they rise, like the walls of a hock-glass.

311; Ode to Tragedy, i. 383, n. 3; v. 51, n. 3; Oglethorpe, flattered by, ii. 59, n. 1 and 3; old-fashioned principles, v. 131; 'old-hock humour,' i. 383, n. 3; ii. 436, n. i; ostentatious, i. 465; Oxford, visits, in 1768, ii. 46; in 1776, ii. 438; in 1784, iv.

Dropped that nine hundred hock-money like it was a hot potato, and me countin' on bringin' you home your coat and junk again to-night.