Hake

Pronunciation

• IPA: /heɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

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

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.

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

• haak

Noun

1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera , Merluccius, and allies.

Synonyms

• codling, squirrel hake

Hyponyms

• (gadoid fish) European hake (Merluccius merluccius}), American silver hake, whiting (), ,

Noun

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.

Verb

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