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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.

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.
    • To live the life of a drudge or hack.

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