Heaking-time

heaking-time

1. (dated, obsolete, very rare) The point in time in which to draw or seize the haking, or the fish which it has caught.
• Nashe Lenten Stuffe|page=20|passage=Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so ea?terly aduer?e and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Pi?ces, whome ?o much as by name I ?houlde not haue acknowledged, had it not beene that I mu?ed, how Yarmouth ?hould be inue?ted in ?uch plenty and opulence, con?idering that in M. Hackluit’s Richard Hakluyt’s Engli?h di?coueries, I haue not come in ken of one mizzen ma?t of a man of warre bound for the Indies, or mediteranean ?ternebearer ?ente from her Zenith or Meridian''; ...