Definition of Hocking

1. Verb. (present participle of hock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hocking

1. hock [v] - See also: hock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hocking

hockey puck
hockey pucks
hockey rink
hockey season
hockey skate
hockey stick
hockey sticks
hockey stop
hockey tape
hockey team
hockeyist
hockeyists
hockeylike
hockeys
hockherb
hocking (current term)
hockle
hockled
hockles
hocklin
hockling
hocks
hockshop
hockshops
hocus
hocus-pocus
hocus pocus
hocused
hocuses
hocusing

Literary usage of Hocking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1879)
"IT is now five years since I called the attention of the Institute to the industrial importance of the coal and the iron ores of the hocking Valley in ..."

2. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Association, American Iron and Steel Institute (1896)
"Columbus and hocking Coal and Iron Company, Columbus. ... Winona Furnace, at Winona Furnace PO, hocking county, one stack, 50 x 12}, completed in 1878, ..."

3. History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan (1912)
"The disturbed counties were hocking, Perry and Athens. ... The sheriff of hocking county telegraphed the Governor for troops, and the latter promptly ..."

4. Conciliation and Arbitration in the Coal Industry of America by Arthur Elliott Suffern (1915)
"(2) hocking Valley strike, 1884 In 1884, the Ohio Miners' Amalgamated Association ... In one of the hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company mines the average ..."

5. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and by George Clement Boase, William Prideaux Courtney (1882)
"Letters patent to E. Oxland of Plymouth and John hocking the younger, ... Letters patent to John hocking, junior, for " Improvements in pumps for raising ..."

6. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low (1901)
"98 hocking- (SK)—Strange Adventures of Israel Pendray. Orig. ... 00 hocking- (WJ)—Modem Problems and Christian Ethics. 2nd ed. cr. 8vo. 7j x 5J, pp. ..."

7. American Railways as Investments: A Detailed and Comparative Analysis of All by Carl Snyder (1907)
"The hocking Valley is a coal road, through central Ohio, from Toledo to the Ohio River. It directly operates 347 miles of road and owns practically all of ..."

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