Associations to the word «Hake»

Wiktionary

HAKE, noun. (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
HAKE, noun. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
HAKE, noun. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
HAKE, noun. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
HAKE, noun. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
HAKE, verb. (UK) (dialect) To loiter; to sneak.

Dictionary definition

HAKE, noun. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
HAKE, noun. Any of several marine food fishes related to cod.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats