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hake¹
- /heɪk/
Sounds like haik (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -eɪk
Where it comes from
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”).
noun hakes
- A hook; a pot-hook.
- A kind of weapon; a pike.
- (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
hake²
- /heɪk/
Sounds like haik (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -eɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.
noun hakes · hake · haak
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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.
Similar: codling
hake³
- /heɪk/
Sounds like haik (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -eɪk
noun hakes
- 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.
Hake⁴
Where it comes from
* As a North Germanic surname, from Old Norse haki (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô.
* As a north German surname, spelling variant of Haack.
* As a Dutch and north German surname, from haag (“hedge”).
* As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, spelling variant of Hacke, from האַק (hak, “axe”).
proper noun Hakes
- A surname.
Translations
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noun fish
| Español | merluza, pescadilla |
|---|---|
| Português | merluza |
| Français | merlu |
| Deutsch | Hechtdorsch, Seehecht |
| Italiano | nasello |
| Русский | хек xek, мерлу́за merlúza |
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