• Hake

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /heɪk/
    • Rhymes: -eɪk

    Origin 1

    From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca ("hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar"), from Proto-Germanic *hakô ("hook"), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- ("peg, hook"). Cognate with Dutch haak ("hook"), German Haken ("hook"), Danish hage ("hook"), Swedish hake ("hook"), Icelandic haki ("hook"), Hittite kagas ("tooth"), Middle Irish ailchaing ("weapons rack"), Lithuanian kéngė ("hook, latch"), Russian коготь (kógot', "claw"). Related to hook.

    Full definition of hake

    Noun

    hake

    (plural hakes)
    1. (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
    2. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
    3. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

    Origin 2

    From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal haked ("pike"). Compare Norwegian hakefisk ("trout, salmon"), Middle Low German haken ("kipper"). More at haked.

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    hake

    (plural hakes or hake)
    1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera , Merluccius, and allies.

    Origin 3

    Noun

    hake

    (plural hakes)
    1. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
      • 1882, P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine, in the Adrian City Directories: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.

    Origin 4

    Verb

    1. (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
      • 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52She'd as well been at school as haking about.
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