| Hack (hack) |
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| n. | (h k) |
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| Hack |
| [See Hatch
a half door.] |
A frame or grating of various
kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for
feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for
drying.
|
To cut irregulary, without
skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of
a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
|
To cough faintly and
frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking
cough.
|
A
notch; a cut.
An implement for cutting a notch; a large
pick used in breaking stone.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short,
broken cough.
A kick on the
shins.
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| Hack (hack) |
|---|
| n. | (hk) |
|---|
| Hack |
| [Shortened fr.
hackney. See Hackney.]
|
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common
hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as
distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
A coach or carriage let for hire;
particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a
hackney coach.
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any
sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
A procuress.
|
Hackneyed; hired;
mercenary.
|
To
use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so
as to render trite and commonplace.
|
To
be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn
prostitute.
To live the life of a drudge or
hack.
|
To ride or drive as one
does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the
roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military
fashion.
|
To
kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
|
A kick
on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
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