Hake

Quick meaning: Hake is a noun meaning (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.

Meaning

(Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.

More Meanings

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
3. One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
4. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• hakes

Synonyms for hake

Depending on context, synonyms include codling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cod, whiting, broil, codling, haddock, hoke.

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