hake

plural hakes

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

plural hakes · alternative haak

1. 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

   1 more example

   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.

   1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: codling

plural hakes

1. 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

plural Hakes

1. A surname.