† half-hake Obs.
Forms: see hake n.4: also half hakk, halfake, -aque, half-hag.
= demi-hake; a smaller size of hackbut.
| c 1538 R. Cowley in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 100 vj half hakes, a redd pese, a passvolant, ij hackbusshes, and a shipp pese. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 41 Mak reddy ȝour cannons..hagbutis of croche, half haggis, culuerenis. 1551 Sc. Acts Mary (1597) §9 To schutte with the halfe hag, Culuering, or Pistolet. a 1562 G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 73 Souches and Burgonyons with gounes and half hakks. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. ix. (1599) 369 Fiue hundred footemen with halfaques, and fiftie harquebusiers. |