hake

/heɪk/

hake noun: a hook; a pot-hook.

Noun (1)

hake (plural hakes)

(Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
(Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
(Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

Noun (2)

hake (plural hakes or hake)

One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
- Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.1964 October, P. Baxter, “Fleetwood is sceptical of BR's fish train plan”, in Modern Railways, page 255
- 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...1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
Synonyms:

codling

Noun (3)

hake (plural hakes)

A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
- 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.1882, P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine, in the Adrian City Directories

Proper noun capitalized: Hake

Hake (plural Hakes)

A surname.

hake meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

hake in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of hake

codling

Forms of hake

Noun
plural	hakes
plural	hake
alternative form	haak
Proper noun
plural	Hakes

Origin of hake

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”).

From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.

* As a North Germanic surname, from Old Norse haki (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Haack. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from haag (“hedge”). * As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, spelling variant of Hacke, from האַק (hak, “axe”).

Words formed from hake

hakelike

Phrases with hake

Words that rhyme with hake

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Questions about hake

What does hake mean?: Hake means a hook; a pot-hook.
What is hake in Tamil?: Hake in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Hake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hake?: Hake can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hake?: Hake is pronounced /heɪk/.
What is the plural of hake?: The plural of hake is hakes.

Words near hake in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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