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hake

noun
/heɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook. Cognates Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite [Term?] (/⁠kagas⁠/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”).

  1. derived from *hakô✻
  2. derived from haki — “hook”

Definitions

  1. A hook

    A hook; a pot-hook.

  2. A kind of weapon

    A kind of weapon; a pike.

  3. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and…

      One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

      • Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.

    2. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

      • The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake on the yard. … take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the hake to dry.

    3. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA