hocks
1811 Vulgar Tongue
Vulgar appellation for the feet. You have leftthe marks of your dirty hocks on my clean stairs; a frequentcomplaint from a mop squeezer to a footman.
Merriam-Webster
1 : the tarsal joint or region in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (as the horse) corresponding to the human ankle but elevated and bending backward : a joint of a fowl’s leg that corresponds to the hock of a quadruped
2 : a small cut of meat from a front or hind leg just above the foot
