hake

• IPA^(key): /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 [Term?] (/kagas/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). 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 Scandinavian 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.

• 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.

Compare Dutch haken (“to hanker”).

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

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

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

hake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

hakata +‎ -e

hake

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

hake

1. First-person singular present of haken.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
4. Imperative singular of haken.

hake

1. Rōmaji transcription of はけ

From Old Dutch *hako, *hāko, from Proto-Germanic *hakô, *hēkô. The modern Limburgish ao suggests Old Dutch ā.

hāke or hâke m

1. hook

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• haec
• haeccen

• Dutch: haak
  • → Sranan Tongo: aka
• Limburgish: haok

• “hake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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

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

1. chin (bottom of the face)

• dobbelhake, dobbelthake

From Old Norse haki

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.

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

hake c

1. catch, latch; a stopping mechanism that prevents something from opening
2. catch; an unforeseen or concealed problem