hake

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To loiter; to sneak.

Synonyms

European hake

coley

haddock

kingfish

ling

pollack

COD

Cornish salmon

common gemfish

deepsea kingfish

white hake

king barracouta

king barracuda

king couta

coalfish

Merlucius

Pronounced as (IPA)

/heɪk/

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”).