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Definition hake
Etymology 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 [Term?] (/kagas/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéng? (“hook, latch”), Russian ??????? (kógot?, “claw”). Related to hook.
Noun
hake (plural hakes)
- (now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
- (now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
Etymology 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.
Noun
hake (plural hakes or hake)
- One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
Etymology 3
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Noun
hake (plural hakes)
Etymology 4
Compare Dutch haken (“to hanker”).
Verb
hake (third-person singular simple present hakes, present participle haking, simple past and past participle haked)
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