speir.
hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)
Meaning & usage
hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)
spit (a generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar)
shin, shank (cut of beef)
spur (projection from a mountain or mountain range)
Where this word comes from
Alternative form of seir (from Old Irish seir (“heel”)) altered under the influence of spor (“spur”) (from Middle English spore and/or Old Norse spori, from Proto-Germanic *spurô). Both the native word and the Germanic loanword are from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”). The same conflation is found in Manx and Scottish Gaelic speir.
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