sickle-hocked

[ sik-uhl-hokt ]

/ ˈsɪk əlˌhɒkt /

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adjective Veterinary Pathology.

noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.

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Also called sick·le-hammed

[sik-uhl-hamd]. /ˈsɪk əlˌhæmd/.

Origin of sickle-hocked

First recorded in 1600–10

Words nearby sickle-hocked

sickle cell syndrome, sickle-cell test, sickle cell-thalassemia disease, sickle cell trait, sickle feather, sickle-hocked, sickle medick, sicklemia, sickling, sick list, sickly

How to use sickle-hocked in a sentence

Schools closed, the deficit ballooned, highways crumbled, jobs disappeared—I imagine ruby slippers were hocked.
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The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.
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The communist part is no joke, either—his business card features a Soviet-style hammer and sickle in red.
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France's Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.
France's Communists Sell Out|David Frum|February 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Tester uses the word "cool" as often as a tween, and I lost count of all the loogies he hocked in my presence.
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Then Morfed lifted his arm and began to sing softly, swinging the sickle in time to the song, with his eyes on us.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
It was an uncanny song, and I waxed uneasy as it went on, and the flashing sickle waved more quickly before my eyes.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
The song stopped, and the lifted sickle sank with the hand that held it, and the eyes of Morfed left mine and sought the ground.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
Then our captain—wild, saucy Peg Sickle—bounded up with the cry, 'Crown the captain!'
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral|John Dunloe Carteret
Seems to me this dust is like the grain that is shed from a ripe crop before it comes to the sickle.
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