hake

• IPA^(key): /heɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

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.

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.

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.

• haak

hake (plural hakes or hake)

1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
   • 1964 October, P. Baxter, “Fleetwood is sceptical of BR's fish train plan”, in Modern Railways, page 255:

     Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.

• codling, squirrel hake

• (gadoid fish): European hake (Merluccius merluccius), American silver hake, whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), Phycis chuss, Phycis tenius

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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.

Ultimately related to the root of hook. Compare Dutch haken (“to hanker”).

hake (third-person singular simple present hakes, present participle haking, simple past and past participle haked)

1. (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
   • 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52:

     She'd as well been at school as haking about.

• heka

hake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

hakata +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑkeˣ/, [ˈhɑke̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑke
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧ke

hake

1. woodchips as mass, e.g. when used as fuel

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hake

1. inflection of haken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

hake

1. Rōmaji transcription of はけ

hake • (hake)

1. to be hunched, crooked, bent

From Old Dutch *hako, *hāko, from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô, *hēkô. The modern Limburgish ao suggests Middle Dutch â, and therefore also Old Dutch ā and Proto-Germanic *ē.

hāke or hâke m

1. hook

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• haec
• haeccen

• Dutch: haak
  • Afrikaans: haak
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: haki
  • Negerhollands: huk
  • → Indonesian: hak
  • → Papiamentu: hak, haak
  • → Sranan Tongo: aka
    • → Caribbean Javanese: akah
• Limburgish: haok

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “hake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Unknown; see more at English hake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːk(ə)/

hake (plural hakes)

1. hake (gadoid fish)

• English: hake

• “hāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.

From Old Norse haka.

hake f or m (definite singular haka or haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. a chin (bottom of the face)

• dobbelthake

From Old Norse haki.

hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

• båtshake
• hakekors
• vinkelhake

• “hake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse haka, Proto-Germanic *hakǭ.

• haka, hoka, hoke, hoko, hoku, huku (superseded forms)
• hukku (dialectal)

hake f (definite singular haka, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. chin (bottom of the face)

• dobbelhake, dobbelthake

From Old Norse haki.

• håkkå (dialectal)

hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural hakar, definite plural hakane)

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

• båtshake
• hakekors, hakekross
• vinkelhake

• “hake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• heka

From Old Swedish haki, from Old Norse haki, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

hake c

1. a hook (for fastening or suspending something, not fishing)
2. a catch, a snag

   Jag visste att det fanns en hake

   I knew there was a catch

• hållhake

• hasp
• krok (“hook”)

• hake in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hake in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hake in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)