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.
Use in sentences of HACK
Meaning of HACK in English
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.
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 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 or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.