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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Hough

Hōugh, n.

noun

(hōk), n. [Written also hock.] [A-S. hōh, hō, the heel or the hough; Prov. Ger. höck, L. Ger. hacke, M. H. Ger. hake, D. hak, f., the heel; Ger. hacke, f., D. hak, m., hoe. Cf. HACK, v.]

  1. (a.) The joint on the hind leg of a quadruped, between the knee and fetlock, and which corresponds to the ankle-joint in man. (b.) That part of the leg between the leg-bone (tibia) and the cannon-bone, consisting of the ankle-bones more or less completely united. White.
  2. The posterior part of the knee-joint in man; the poples or ham. Dunglison.
  3. An adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

Hōugh, v. t.

verbtransitive

(hŏk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. HOUGHED; p. pr. & vb. n. HOUGHING.] 1. To disable by cutting the sinews of the ham; to hamstring. 2. To cut with a hoe. [Obs.]