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half-hake
† 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..h...
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▪ I. hake, n.1 (heɪk) Also 6 haake, 8 hack. [Known only from 14th (?) or 15th c.; origin uncertain. Mod. Norw. has hakefisk, lit. ‘hookfish’, applied to fish, as the salmon or trout, with a hooked under-jaw.] 1. A gadoid fish, Merlucius vulgaris, resembling the cod. Also extended to the genus Merluc...
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