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hock(2) (iou) and plumming (medicine)


hock(2) (iou)



hock noun2. LME.
[Var. of HOUGH noun.]
The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped between the tibia and the metatarsus, the angle of which points backwards. LME.
A knuckle of meat, esp. pork. Cf. HOUGH noun 3. E18.

plumming (medicine)


plumming
<chemical> The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

See: Plumb.

Source: Websters Dictionary