hake

Meanings

Noun

• A hook; a pot-hook.
• A kind of weapon; a pike.
• The draught-irons of a plough.
• One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis (genus), Merluccius, and allies.
• A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

Verb

• To loiter; to sneak.

Related

Similar words

• codling, squirrel hake

Narrower meaning words

• European hake (Merluccius merluccius), American silver hake, whiting (Merluccius bilinearis (species)), Phycis chuss (species), Phycis tenius (species)

Origin

• From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca, from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô ("hook"), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng-. Related to hook.
• Cognate with Dutch haak ("hook"), German Haken ("hook"), Danish hage ("hook"), Swedish hake ("hook"), Icelandic haki ("hook"), Hittite, Middle Irish ailchaing ("weapons rack"), Lithuanian kéngė ("hook, latch"), Russian ко́готь ("claw").
• From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked. Compare Norwegian hakefisk ("trout, salmon"), Middle Low German haken ("kipper"). More at haked.
• Ultimately related to the root of hook. Compare Dutch en ("to hanker").