English

Noun

hake ‎(plural hakes)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal haked ‎(“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk ‎(“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken ‎(“kipper”). More at haked.

Alternative forms

• haak

Noun

hake ‎(plural hakes or hake)

1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

Synonyms

• codling, squirrel hake

Hyponyms

• (gadoid fish): European hake (Merluccius merluccius), American silver hake, whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), Phycis chuss, Phycis tenius

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

hake ‎(plural hakes)

1. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
   • 1882, P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine, in the Adrian City Directories:

     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.

Translations

Etymology 4

Verb

hake ‎(third-person singular simple present hakes, present participle haking, simple past and past participle haked)

1. (Britain, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
   • 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52

     She'd as well been at school as haking about.

Dutch

Verb

hake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

Finnish

Etymology

hakata +‎ -e

Noun

hake

1. woodchips as mass, e.g. when used as fuel

Declension

German

Verb

hake

1. First-person singular present of haken.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
4. Imperative singular of haken.

Japanese

Romanization

hake

1. rōmaji reading of はけ

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka

Noun

hake f, m ‎(definite singular haka or haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. a chin (bottom of the face)

Derived terms

• dobbelthake

Etymology 2

From Old Norse haki

Noun

hake m ‎(definite singular haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

Derived terms

• hakekors
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka

Noun

hake f ‎(definite singular haka, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

1. chin (bottom of the face)

Derived terms

• dobbelhake, dobbelthake

Etymology 2

From Old Norse haki

Noun

hake m ‎(definite singular haken, indefinite plural hakar, definite plural hakane)

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

Derived terms

• hakekors, hakekross
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish haki, from Old Norse haki, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

Noun

hake c

1. catch, latch; a stopping mechanism that prevents something from opening
2. catch; an unforeseen or concealed problem

Declension