Heck

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • , possibly from German.
  • civil parish Selby (district) North Yorkshire (county) England (constituent country), with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  • hamlet council area, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland (constituent country) .

Origin

  • From German Heck, the surname.

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