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heck

intj
/hɛk/

Etymology

English, Dutch and south German surname, all from words meaning "hedge," "enclosure," "fence," from *haggju. Compare Van Heck, Hatch.

Definitions

  1. Hell.

    • Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.

  2. to break, to destroy

  3. to mess up

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. The bolt or latch of a door.

    2. A rack for cattle to feed at.

    3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.

    4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

    5. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the…

      An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

    6. A bend or winding of a stream.

    7. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct…

      A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

    8. A surname, possibly from German.

    9. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the…

      A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.

    10. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

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