hake

Definitions

1. A hook; a pot-hook.
2. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
3. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
4. A surname.
5. A kind of weapon; a pike.
6. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore⟳ fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve⟳ their marketability, has renamed cape shark.”

“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.”

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