Definitions for Hocking

Hocking Hock·ing

Spelling: [hok-ing]
IPA: /ˈhɒk ɪŋ/

Hocking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in Hocking (cghikno).

Definitions for Hocking

noun

  1. William Ernest, 1873–1966, U.S. philosopher.
  2. the joint in the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., above the fetlock joint, corresponding anatomically to the ankle in humans.
  3. a corresponding joint in a fowl.
  4. the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn:
  5. the condition of owing; debt:

verb (used with object)

  1. to hamstring.
  2. pawn1 .

Origin of Hocking

1375-1425; variant of dial. hough, Middle English ho(u)gh, apparently back formation from late Middle English hokschyn, etc., Old English hōhsinu hock (literally, heel) sinew; see Examples for Hocking

In the country, “Hocking” was often resorted to for raising church funds.

What I have fruited and described as the Hocking may prove to be the same.

So he made his feelings known by Hocking up a loogie that was far more accurate than any of his efforts during the game.

In 1861 a large body of birds were in Ohio roosting in the Hocking Hills, my first year out.

These tomes now rival the works of the brothers Hocking in the stationer's shop.

"Andrew Fairfax" is undoubtedly the story by which Mr. Hocking came into his own.

Hocking says that it is through symbols that the mind best gropes its way to the realization of ideas.

It's just Hocking it up;—what is fit, and what isn't, all together.

Professor Hocking, of Harvard University, has used a remarkable illustration to enforce this very conception.

Everything was as neat and clean as it could possibly be; but Mr. and Mrs. Hocking had no children, and had saved a little money.

Word Value for Hocking
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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