hake

Meanings

1. A hook; a pot-hook.
2. A kind of weapon; a pike.
3. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

1. One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

1. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

1. A surname.

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”).