hake
/heɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.42 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook. Cognates 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”).