Smoked ham hock

Hi!
I found that hock is sth like middle ankle of an animal. But I'm confused with this expression because in a recipe this is cooked, with other things like oil, garlic, spices and split peas and mashed in a dish called ''split peas''. How can you mash a hock? Or is meat from that part -ham-what is mashed, once when cooked? I don't understand how can you mash a bone?
Please help me

I've seen it.It's too early for pig feet pieanne!:))
The recipe doesn't say remove the bone, just mash the ham..
Thank you pieanne

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This sounds like a dish we have over here called "pease pudding", although for that the peas are just cooked in ham stock. I think if you cooked the ham for long enough it would probably become v. soft, but I doubt that it would be the same consistency as the peas.Maybe it just means that you cook it until v. soft then work it into the mashed peas.

If they go together in food processor, maybe you could say "blend together in food processor" (or am I answering another question?)