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heaking-time

heaking-time noun: the point in time in which to draw or seize the haking, or the fish which it has caught.

Noun

heaking-time

  1. (dated, obsolete, rare) The point in time in which to draw or seize the haking, or the fish which it has caught.
    • Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so eaſterly aduerſe and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Piſces, whome ſo much as by name I ſhoulde not haue acknowledged, had it not beene that I muſed, how Yarmouth...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 20

Questions about heaking-time

What does heaking-time mean?
Heaking-time means the point in time in which to draw or seize the haking, or the fish which it has caught.
What part of speech is heaking-time?
Heaking-time is a noun.

Words near heaking-time in the dictionary

  1. Heafners
  2. Heage
  3. Heagy
  4. Heagys
  5. heah
  6. heaking-time
  7. heal
  8. heal and draw
  9. heal over
  10. heal up
  11. heal-all

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